Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts

Schliephake, Dr Christopher; Eidinow, Esther

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

12/2024

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9781350344198

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List of Contributors
Preface
List of Abbreviations

Introduction, Esther Eidinow and Christopher Schliephake

I. Control
1. Perilous Environs: The Rustic World in Aratus and Nicander, Leonardo Cazzadori
2. Shared Suffering and Cyclical Destruction: Failures of Environmental Control in the
Aeneid, Aaron M. Seider
3. Chaos and Kosmos: An Ecocritical Reading of Seneca's Thyestes, Simona Martorana

II. Connection
4. The Interspecies and Trans-Corporeal Mesh in Euripides' Bacchae, Maria Combatti
5. The Relationality of Darkness in Thucydides, Esther Eidinow
6. The Only Constant Is Change - The Environmental Dimension of Plutarch's De defectu oraculorum, Christopher Schliephake

III. Contact
7. Poseidon's Mode of Action: Divine Agency and the Helike Disaster, Michiel van Veldhuizen
8. River, Agency, and Gender: An Ecocritical Reading of the Myths of the Tiber, Kresimir Vukovic
9. Ecological Grief and the Safaitic Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia, Eris Williams Reed

IV. Change
10. Ecological Grief in Aelius Aristides and Philostratus, Jason Koenig
11. An Allegory of the 'Anthropocene': Environmental and textual disorder in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae, Marco Formisano
12. The Environmental Ethics of Delphi: Back-filling Latour's Facing Gaia, Mark D. Usher
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Iliad; Thucydides; ecocriticism; Plutarch; Pliny; Aeneid; landscape; ecocatastrophe; ecology; nature