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What can a study of antiquity contribute to the interdisciplinary paradigm of the environmental humanities? And how does this recent paradigm influence the way we perceive human-'nature' interactions in pre-modernity? By asking these and a number of related questions, this Element aims to show why the ancient tradition still matters in the Anthropocene. Offering new perspectives to think about what directions the ecological turn could take in classical studies, it revisits old material, including ancient Greek religion and mythology, with central concepts of contemporary environmental theory. It also critically engages with forms of classical reception in current debates, arguing that ancient ecological knowledge is a powerful resource for creating alternative world views.

"The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors and societies have imagined their respective future environments"--

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.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dialogues Between Times and Places -- Experience and Expectations: Hesiod on Work, Justice, and Environment -- Ancient Geographies of Health and Environmental Acumen -- The Past is a Foreign Environment -- Future Imperfect in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579) -- Retrospective Prophecy in Contemporary Maya Literature -- Extinction and Conservation -- Feeling Like a Species -- Anticipating Multispecies Thinking in Plutarch's Animal Treatises -- William Temple Hornaday's Haunting Vision of a Wildlife Apocalypse -- Anticipating Extinction -- Narrating Civilizational Collapse in the Anthropocene -- Urban Environments -- Sensing Noise, Sensing Space -- The Arcologies of Paolo Soleri -- Utopia's User Interface -- Climate(s) and Materialities -- Solastalgia, Future Memory, and Polluted Landscapes in Lucan's Bellum Civile 7 -- Nuclear Winter -- "Nature in Order" or Human Agency? Visions of the Future in the Long Nineteenth-Century Newspaper -- Explaining Climate Change and Predicting its Impacts -- Ecology in a Loop -- Index -- About the Contributors.