Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations

Ancient Guides to Living with Nature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather that we can find in their lives and thought the origin of modern ideas about systems and sustainability, important topics for humans today and in the future. With chapters running the gamut of Greek and Roman experience - from the Presocratics and Plato to Roman agronomy and the Benedictine Rule - Plato's Pigs brings together unlikely bedfellows, both ancient and modern, to reveal surprising connections. Lively prose and liberal use of anecdotal detail, including an afterword about the author's own experiments with sustainable living on his sheep farm in Vermont, add a strong authorial voice. In short, this is a unique, first-of-its-kind book that is sure to be of interest to anyone working in Classics, environmental studies, philosophy, ecology, or the history of ideas.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-15
Mått:157 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108839587

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M. D. Usher is Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classical Languages and Literature and a faculty member in the Environmental Program at the University of Vermont. He is the author of academic books and articles in the field of classics, including A Student's Seneca (2006), and has also written books for children, poems, and two opera libretti. With his wife he also built, owns, and operates Works and Days Farm in Shoreham, Vermont, where he has been engaged in farming for over twenty years.

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'… rich and ambitious … this is a work of remarkable erudition, displaying a mastery not only of a rich array of ancient philosophers, poets and politicians, but also of modern physics, philosophy, economics, agronomy and theology.' William Brockliss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Environmental philology; 1. Debts to nature; 2. Anaximander for the anthropocene; 3. Heraclitus and the quantum; 4. A city for pigs; 5. Mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon; 6. Cynics and stoics; 7. Roman revolutions; 8. Community rule; Afterword. Works and days and then some.