Environmental History / Ancient Greece

["Cheryll A Glotfelty" <glotfelt@unr.edu>]

Jay, If you're interested in the environmental valence of tragedy, Joseph Meeker's The Comedy of Survival is a must-read.  He assesses the environmental impact (if you will) of the comic and tragic modes, with in-depth discussion of Greek tragedy.  
 
Cheryll Glotfelty
Associate Professor, English Department
University of Nevada, Reno, NV  89557
(775) 682-6395; FAX (775) 784-6266 

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From: asle-owner@interversity.org on behalf of Jay Ball
Sent: Wed 9/3/2008 7:02 AM
To: asle@interversity.org
Subject: Re: FW: [asle] Environmental History / Ancient Greece



I'm very grateful to Heather, Chris, Cheryll, Bernard, Anthony, Lisa and
both Richards for your helpful replies. I know that the word "tragedy" in
"tragedy of the commons" is only supposed to serve as a metaphor for a
predictable structural dynamic. However, I've been curious to know if the
resonance of Hardin's term doesn't have something to do with the
catastrophism common to both the genre of Greek tragedy and what little I
know ancient Greek land use, population expansion and crash colonization.
Thanks to the list, I will now have a lot more to go on.

Thanks for your help,

Jay

School of Drama
Carnegie Mellon University




On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Sullivan, Heather <hsulliva@trinity.edu>wrote:

> Greetings, ASLE listers:
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> Below are suggestions from my colleagues in classics.
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> Best,
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> Heather Sullivan
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> From: Jenkins, Thomas
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:34 PM
> To: O'Sullivan, Timothy
> Cc: Sullivan, Heather
> Subject: Re: [asle] Environmental History / Ancient Greece
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> Yes, The Corrupting Sea by Horden and Purcell is a totally wacky yet
> weirdly wonderful history of Greece told entirely from the point of view
> of ecology.
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> -Tom
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> On Sep 2, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Timothy O'Sullivan wrote:
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> Hi Heather,
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> This one springs immediately to mind:
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> Meiggs, Russell.
> Trees and timber in the ancient Mediterranean world
> Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1982.
> HD9765.M47 M44 1982
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> As I recall, he deals with deforestation (he would have to, wouldn't
> he?).
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> Tom, any other ideas?
> Tim
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> On  , at  2:49 PM, Sullivan, Heather wrote:
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> Hi Tom & Tim,
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>        Any suggestions for my eco-list?
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>        Heather
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>        -----Original Message-----
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>        From: asle-owner@interversity.org
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>        On Behalf Of Jay Ball
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>        Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 2:48 PM
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>        To: asle@interversity.org
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>        Subject: [asle] Environmental History / Ancient Greece
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>        Could anyone recommend any books or articles on the
> environmental
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>        history of
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>        ancient Greece? I'm also interested in the issues of ecological
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>        degradation
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>        and deforestation in the Mediterranean more generally, as well.
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>        Many thanks for your help,
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>        Jay
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>        School of Drama
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>        Carnegie Mellon University
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