Christopher Schliephake is a cultural historian, ecocritic, and postdoc scholar at the University of Augsburg.

Too many writers assume that ecocriticism and environmental engagement began with the poems of Wordsworth or the writings of Thoreau. This collection of essays well demonstrates that for as long as humans have been creating texts they have been meditating critically upon their place within a natural world that far exceeds them in scale and duration. Of as much interest to those working in the environmental humanities as classists, Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity demonstrates that the Greek and Latin texts of antiquity have much of importance to say to a critical conversation today.

• Foreword: Before Nature?, Brooke HolmesAbbreviationsIntroduction, Christopher SchliephakePart I: Environmental (Hi)stories: Negotiating Human-Nature Interactions(1) Environmental Mosaics Natural and Imposed, J. Donald Hughes (2) Poseidon’s Wrath and the End of Helike: Notions about the Anthropogenic Character of Disasters in Antiquity, Justine Walter (3) Glades of Dread: The Ecology and Aesthetics of loca horrida, Aneta Kliszcz and Joanna Komorowska (4) Response: Hailed by the Genius of Ruins – Antiquity, the Anthropocene, and the Environmental Humanities, Hannes Bergthaller Part II: Close Readings: Literary Ecologies and the More-than-Human World(5) Eroticized Environments: Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Roots of Erotic Ecocritical Contemplation, Thomas Sharkie and Marguerite Johnson (6) Interspecies Ethics and Collaborative Survival in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, Richard Hutchins (7) The Ecological Highway: Environmental Ekphrasis in St

Christopher Schliephake is a cultural historian, ecocritic, and postdoc scholar at the University of Augsburg.

Too many writers assume that ecocriticism and environmental engagement began with the poems of Wordsworth or the writings of Thoreau. This collection of essays well demonstrates that for as long as humans have been creating texts they have been meditating critically upon their place within a natural world that far exceeds them in scale and duration. Of as much interest to those working in the environmental humanities as classists, Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity demonstrates that the Greek and Latin texts of antiquity have much of importance to say to a critical conversation today.

• Foreword: Before Nature?, Brooke HolmesAbbreviationsIntroduction, Christopher SchliephakePart I: Environmental (Hi)stories: Negotiating Human-Nature Interactions(1) Environmental Mosaics Natural and Imposed, J. Donald Hughes (2) Poseidon’s Wrath and the End of Helike: Notions about the Anthropogenic Character of Disasters in Antiquity, Justine Walter (3) Glades of Dread: The Ecology and Aesthetics of loca horrida, Aneta Kliszcz and Joanna Komorowska (4) Response: Hailed by the Genius of Ruins – Antiquity, the Anthropocene, and the Environmental Humanities, Hannes Bergthaller Part II: Close Readings: Literary Ecologies and the More-than-Human World(5) Eroticized Environments: Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Roots of Erotic Ecocritical Contemplation, Thomas Sharkie and Marguerite Johnson (6) Interspecies Ethics and Collaborative Survival in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, Richard Hutchins (7) The Ecological Highway: Environmental Ekphrasis in St

Christopher Schliephake is a cultural historian, ecocritic, and postdoc scholar at the University of Augsburg.

Too many writers assume that ecocriticism and environmental engagement began with the poems of Wordsworth or the writings of Thoreau. This collection of essays well demonstrates that for as long as humans have been creating texts they have been meditating critically upon their place within a natural world that far exceeds them in scale and duration. Of as much interest to those working in the environmental humanities as classists, Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity demonstrates that the Greek and Latin texts of antiquity have much of importance to say to a critical conversation today.

• Foreword: Before Nature?, Brooke HolmesAbbreviationsIntroduction, Christopher SchliephakePart I: Environmental (Hi)stories: Negotiating Human-Nature Interactions(1) Environmental Mosaics Natural and Imposed, J. Donald Hughes (2) Poseidon’s Wrath and the End of Helike: Notions about the Anthropogenic Character of Disasters in Antiquity, Justine Walter (3) Glades of Dread: The Ecology and Aesthetics of loca horrida, Aneta Kliszcz and Joanna Komorowska (4) Response: Hailed by the Genius of Ruins – Antiquity, the Anthropocene, and the Environmental Humanities, Hannes Bergthaller Part II: Close Readings: Literary Ecologies and the More-than-Human World(5) Eroticized Environments: Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Roots of Erotic Ecocritical Contemplation, Thomas Sharkie and Marguerite Johnson (6) Interspecies Ethics and Collaborative Survival in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, Richard Hutchins (7) The Ecological Highway: Environmental Ekphrasis in St