Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity

Foreword: Before Nature?, Brooke HolmesAbbreviationsIntroduction, Christopher SchliephakePart I: Environmental (Hi)stories: Negotiating Human-Nature Interactions(1) Environmental Mosaics Natural and Imposed, J. Donald Hughes 		(2) Poseidon\'s Wrath and the End of Helike: Notions about the Anthropogenic Character of Disasters in Antiquity, Justine Walter 						(3) Glades of Dread: The Ecology and Aesthetics of loca horrida, Aneta Kliszcz and Joanna Komorowska 										 (4) 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(5) Eroticized Environments: Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Roots of Erotic Ecocritical Contemplation, Thomas Sharkie and Marguerite Johnson 		(6) Interspecies Ethics and Collaborative Survival in Lucretius\' De Rerum Natura, Richard Hutchins 										(7) The Ecological Highway: Environmental Ekphrasis in Statius, Silvae 4.3, Christopher Chinn 											(8) Impervious Nature as a Path to Virtue: Cato in the Ninth Book of Bellum Civile, Vittoria Prencipe 										(9) Response: Re-Thinking Borderlines Ecologies - A Literary Ethics of Exposure, Katharina Donn 									Part III: \'Green\' Genres: The Pastoral and Georgic Tradition(10) The Environmental Humanities and the Pastoral Tradition, Terry Gifford	(11) \"How / to make fields fertile\": Ecocritical Lessons from the History of Virgil\'s Georgics in Translation, Laura Sayre								 	(12) Nec provident futuro tempori, sed quasi plane in diem vivant - Sustainable Business in Columella\'s De Re Rustica?, Lars Kessler and Konrad Ott 				(13) Response: Back to the Future - Rethinking Time in Precarious Times, Roman Bartosch 											Part IV: Classical Reception: Presence, Absence, and the Afterlives of Ancient Culture(14) The Myth of Rhiannon: An Ecofeminist Perspective, Anna Banks 		(15) Emblems and Antiquity: An Exploration of Speculative Emblematics, Lucy Mercer and Laurence Grove 									(16) The Sustainability of Texts: Transcultural Ecology and Classical Reception, Christopher Schliephake										 	(17) Daoist Spiritual Ecology in the \"Anthropocene\", Jingcheng Xu		 (18) 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