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020			_a9780511843761 (ebook)
020			_z9781107002166 (hardback)
020			_z9780521174657 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aGF13.3.G74 _bT4713 2012
082	0	0	_a304.20938 _223
100	1		_aThommen, Lukas, _eauthor.
245	1	3	_aAn Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome / _cLukas Thommen.
246	3		_aAn Environmental History of Ancient Greece & Rome
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (200 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aIn ancient Greece and Rome an ambiguous relationship developed between man and nature, and this decisively determined the manner in which they treated the environment. On the one hand, nature was conceived as a space characterized and inhabited by divine powers, which deserved appropriate respect. On the other, a rationalist view emerged, according to which humans were to subdue nature using their technologies and to dispose of its resources. This book systematically describes the ways in which the Greeks and Romans intervened in the environment and thus traces the history of the tension between the exploitation of resources and the protection of nature, from early Greece to the period of late antiquity. At the same time it analyses the comprehensive opening up of the Mediterranean and the northern frontier regions, both for settlement and for economic activity. The book's level and approach make it highly accessible to students and non-specialists.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107002166
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511843761
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38653 _d38653