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This article nominates Bruno Snell's Discovery of the Mind (1946; trans. 1953) as an Undead Text on the basis of three criteria. The article examines first the persistence of a Snellian story about the Greeks as the ancestors of modern Europe within the discipline of classics, before considering the broader question of how Undead Texts interact with Undead (Grand) Narratives. It then considers Discovery as an Undead Narrative in its symbiotic relationship with E. R. Dodds's Greeks and the Irrational, which remains a standard-bearer of the narrative of the Greeks as Other to the moderns. In its final analysis, the article looks to Discovery as itself a perennially productive site for plotting the coordinates of Same and Other in relationship to the ancient Greeks, arguing that such questions are as much about enabling new attachments to the "classical" past as they are about conservative claims of heritage or, conversely, estrangement from the present.

The presumed dichotomy between a Greco-Roman paradigm of Western humanism and new theoretical currents in the humanities is exploded in this volume, which explores the myriad ways in which Greek and Roman philosophy and literature can be understood as foregrounding the non-human rather than simply reflecting the ideals of classical humanism.

Foreword : before nature? /Brooke Holmes --Introduction /Christopher Schliephake--Part I : Environmental (Hi)Stories : Negotiating Human-Nature Interactions --Environmental mosaics natural and imposed /J. Donald Hughes --Poseidon's wrath and the end of Helike : notions about the anthropogenic character of disasters in antiquity /Justine Walter --Glades of dread : the ecology and aesthetics of loca horrida /Aneta Kliszcz and Joanna Komorowska --Response : hailed by the genius of ruins -- antiquity, the anthropocene, and the environmental humanities /Hannes Bergthaller--Part II : Close Readings : Literary Ecologies and the More-Than-Human World --Eroticized environments : ancient Greek natural philosophy and the roots of erotic ecocritical contemplation /Thomas Sharkie and Marguerite Johnson --Interspecies ethics and collaborative survival in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura /Richard Hutchins --The ecological highway : environmental ekphrasis in Statius, Silvae 4.3 /Christopher Chinn --Impervious nature as a path to virtue : Cato in the ninth book of Bellum Civile /Vittoria Prencipe --Response : re-thinking borderlines ecologies -- a literary ethics of exposure /Katharina Donn--Part III : "Green" Genres : The Pastoral and Georgic Tradition --The environmental humanities and the pastoral tradition /Terry Gifford -- "How/to make fields fertile" : ecocritical lessons from the history of Virgil's Georgics in translation /Laura Sayre --Nec provident futuro tempori, sed quasi plane in diem vivant -- sustainable business in Columella's De Re Rustica? /Lars Kessler and Konrad Ott --Response : back to the future -- rethinking time in precarious times /Roman Bartosch --Part IV : Classical Reception : Presence, Absence, and the Afterlives of Ancient Culture --The myth of Rhiannon : an ecofeminist perspective /Anna Banks --Emblems and antiquity : an exploration of speculative emblematics /Lucy Mercer and Laurence Grove --The sustainability of texts : transcultural ecology and classical reception /Christopher Schliephake --Daoist spiritual ecology in the "Anthropocene" /Jingcheng Xu --Response : from ecocritical reception of the ancients to the future of the environmental humanities (with a detour via romanticism) /Kate Rigby --Afterword : revealing roots -- ecocriticism and the cultures of antiquity /Serenella Iovino.

Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of Western humanism. This paradigm has been increasingly thrown into question by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the 'new materialisms', which point toward entities, forces, and systems that pass through and beyond the human and which dislodge it from its primacy as the measure of things. 'Antiquities beyond Humanism' seeks to explode this presumed dichotomy between the ancient tradition and the 21st century 'turn': fourteen original essays explore the myriad ways in which Greek and Roman philosophy and literature can be understood as foregrounding the non-human rather than simply reflecting the ideals of classical humanism.