Description: An examination of how ancient environments were socio-culturally constructed as responsive living entities that could undermine or even challenge humankind's sense of control.
Brief description: Christopher Schliephake is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Augsburg University, Germany. He is author of The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World (2020) and editor of Ecocritisim, Ecology and Cultures in Antiquity (2017).
Review Quotes: A rich and remarkable union of the latest in environmental theory with texts and cultures from the ancient world, which promises to advance both classics and the environmental humanities.
Will Brockliss, Bradshaw Knight Professor of the Environmental Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA