Pollution and the Environment in Ancient Life and Thought
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Pollution and the Environment in Ancient Life and Thought

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Pollution and the Environment in Ancient Life and Thought

About this book

Was there any awareness of environmental problems among intellectuals and politicians of the ancient world? Did they even have notions of 'pollution', 'exploitation', and 'depletion' of natural resources? And what forms did human action take for the protection of the environment?

The authors – from the fields of Ancient History, Classical Archeology, Ancient Laws, and History of Medicine – focus on the environmental and ecological awareness in the ancient world, both in material evidence of daily life and in the intellectual thought. They analyse if there was a common awareness of environmental and ecological questions, or if there were only a few and isolated measures aimed at the interest of special social groups and at specific political goals. They discuss to which extent the ancient evidence can be used to identify the roots of modern environmental sensitivity.

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Yes, you can access Pollution and the Environment in Ancient Life and Thought by Orietta Dora Cordovana,Gian Franco Chiai in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Ancient History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9783515116701
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Orietta Dora Cordovana / Gian Franco Chiai: Introduction. The Griffin and the Hunting
  4. Environment, pollution, and legal sources
  5. Environment and pollution in literary and epigraphic evidence
  6. Environment, pollution, and diseases
  7. Pollution and the Environment in Ancient life: Material Evidence
  8. Indices