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Foreword: Before Nature?
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Introduction
Part I: Environmental (Hi)stories: Negotiating Human-Nature Interactions
1 Environmental Mosaics Natural and Imposed
2 Poseidon’s Wrath and the End of Helike: Notions about the Anthropogenic Character of Disasters in Antiquity
3 Glades of Dread: The Ecology and Aesthetics of loca horrida
4 Response: Hailed by the Genius of Ruins—Antiquity, the Anthropocene, and the Environmental Humanities
Part II: Close Readings: Literary Ecologies and the More-than-Human World
5 Eroticized Environments: Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Roots of Erotic Ecocritical Contemplation
6 Interspecies Ethics and Collaborative Survival in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
7 The Ecological Highway: Environmental Ekphrasis in Statius, Silvae 4.3
8 Impervious Nature as a Path to Virtue: Cato in the Ninth Book of Bellum Civile
9 Response: Rethinking Borderline Ecologies—A Literary Ethics of Exposure
Part III: “Green” Genres: The Pastoral and Georgic Tradition
10 The Environmental Humanities and the Pastoral Tradition
11 “How/to make fields fertile”: Ecocritical Lessons from the History of Virgil’s Georgics in Translation
12 Nec provident futuro tempori, sed quasi plane in diem vivant—Sustainable Business in Columella’s De Re Rustica?
13 Response: Back to the Future—Rethinking Time in Precarious Times
Part IV: Classical Reception: Presence, Absence, and the Afterlives of Ancient Culture
14 The Myth of Rhiannon: An Ecofeminist Perspective
15 Emblems and Antiquity: An Exploration of Speculative Emblematics
16 The Sustainability of Texts: Transcultural Ecology and Classical Reception
17 Daoist Spiritual Ecology in the “Anthropocene”
18 Response: From Ecocritical Reception of the Ancients to the Future of the Environmental Humanities (with a Detour Via Romanticism)
Afterword: Revealing Roots—Ecocriticism and the Cultures of Antiquity
Bibliography
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