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- Title
From storied to porous landscapes: antiquity, the environmental humanities, and the case for long-term histories.
- Authors
Schliephake, Christopher
- Abstract
This essay makes a case for long-term history and its importance to the field of environmental humanities. Examining why the ancient world has only played a marginal role in this new paradigm so far, a new perspective on ancient environments is encouraged - one that does not see these environments as static containers of cultural memory, but rather as dynamic sites of human-nature interaction. With the help of one central text from the ancient world, Pausanias' Description of Greece, this essay seeks to introduce a reconceptualization of the ancient Mediterranean region - especially ancient Greece - as a landscape of porosity.
- Subjects
GREECE; LANDSCAPES; COLLECTIVE memory; ENVIRONMENTAL history; POROSITY
- Publication
GAIA: Ecological Perspectives for Science & Society, 2020, Vol 29, Issue 4, p230
- ISSN
0940-5550
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14512/gaia.29.4.7