By Lukas Thommen
In historical Greece and Rome an ambiguous dating constructed among guy and nature, and this decisively made up our minds the style within which they handled the surroundings. at the one hand, nature used to be conceived as an area characterised and inhabited by means of divine powers, which deserved applicable recognize. at the different, a rationalist view emerged, in response to which people have been to subdue nature utilizing their applied sciences and to get rid of its assets. This booklet systematically describes the ways that the Greeks and Romans intervened within the surroundings and therefore strains the heritage of the strain among the exploitation of assets and the safety of nature, from early Greece to the interval of past due antiquity. while it analyses the excellent commencing up of the Mediterranean and the northern frontier areas, either for cost and for monetary task. The book's point and strategy make it hugely obtainable to scholars and non-specialists.
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