{"product_id":"conversing-with-chaos-in-graeco-roman-antiquity-writing-and-reading-environmental-disorder-in-ancient-texts-9781350344198","title":"Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control?\u003c\/b\u003e And how do their views compare to modern perceptions?\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eConversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e challenges prevailing ideas that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on a profound belief in universal order, and that the cosmos was harmonious and under human control.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eEngaging with the concept of chaos in both its ancient and modern meanings, and focusing on the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, this book reveals another sense of environmental awareness, one that paid equal attention to chance and chaos, and the sometimes-fatal consequences of human interventions in nature.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bringing together a team of international scholars, the volume investigates the experience of the interaction of humans with the environment, as reflected in ancient evidence from myths and philosophical treatises, to epigraphic evidence and archaeological remains. The contributors consider the role of the human in the formation of perspectives about the natural world and explore themes of agency, affordances, ecophobia, gender and temporality. Overall, the volume reveals how, in ancient imaginations, environments were perceived as living entities with their own agency, and respondent (or even vulnerable) to human actions and decision-making. It highlights how modern insights can enrich our understanding of the past, and demonstrates the increasing relevance of ancient historical research for reflecting on current relations to the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEsther Eidinow\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. She is a series editor for the Bloomsbury series \u003ci\u003eAncient Environments\u003c\/i\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience\u003c\/i\u003e (2022) and author of \u003ci\u003eEnvy, Poison and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens \u003c\/i\u003e(2016). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eChristopher Schliephake\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Augsburg University, Germany. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and editor of \u003ci\u003eEcocritisim, Ecology and Cultures in Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e (2017).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869308981522,"sku":"9781350344198","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a7ab8b04-1dad-4786-9c11-f2d777a9b728.jpg?v=1737753507","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/conversing-with-chaos-in-graeco-roman-antiquity-writing-and-reading-environmental-disorder-in-ancient-texts-9781350344198","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}