The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds

ISBN-13: 9780367581701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 458 str.

Rebecca Futo Kennedy; Molly Jones-Lewis

Opis

The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds explores the various ways in which environment was considered as a defining characteristic of ethnicity and identity in the Greek and Roman rational, scientific, and pseudo-scientific discourses. Defining ‘environment’ broadly to include not only

Spis treści

Introduction, "Identity and the Environment"

Rebecca Futo Kennedy and Molly Jones-Lewis

I. Ethnic Identity and the Body

1. Airs, Waters, Metals, Earth: People and Land in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought, Rebecca Futo Kennedy

2. The Ecology Of Health in Dicaearchus and Agatharchides, Clara Bosak-Schroeder

3. The Invention and Purposes of Racial Deformity, Robert Garland

4. Ethnicity in Writers of Physiognomica, Max L. Goldman

5. Health as a Criterion in Ancient Ethnographic Schemes, Eran Almagor

6. 12^th century European Environmental Medicine and Ethnic Stereotyping, Claire Weeda

7. Reception of Greek Climatic Theory in Medieval Jewish Science, Abraham Melamed

II. Determined and Determining Ethnicity

8. Colonisation, nostos and the foreign environment in Xenophon’s Anabasis, Rosie Harman

9. The World in a Pill: Local Specialties and Global Remedies in the Greco-Roman World, Laurence Totelin

10. Vitruvius, landscape and heterotopias: how ‘otherspaces’ enrich Roman identity, Diana Spencer

11. Tribal Identity in the Roman World: The Case of the Psylloi, Molly Jones-Lewis

12. Animals, Identity, and the Environment, Jared Secord

13. Who Reads the Stars? Origen's Critique of Astrological Geography, Kathleen Gibbons

14. Climate and Courage, Georgia Irby

15. Nationality, Religious Belief, Geographical Identity, And Sociopolitical Awareness In Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Thought, Shlomo Sela

16. The Lost Origins of the Daylamites and the Construction of a New Ethnic Legacy for the Buyids, Christine Baker

III. Mapping Ethnicity

17. Location and Dislocation in Early Greek Geography and Ethnography, Philip Kaplan

18. The Terrain of Autochthony: Shaping the Athenian Landscape in the Fifth-Century BCE, Jacquelyn Clements

19. Modelling Ethnicity: Patterns Of Ethnic Evaluation In The Indian Records Of Alexander’s Companions And Megasthenes, Daniela Dueck

20. These happy people: Arabia Felix and the astrological oikoumene of Claudius Ptolemaeus, Joanna Komorowska

21. ‘Ugly as Sin’: Monsters and Barbarians in Late Antiquity, Maja Kominko

22. "Their lands are peripheral and their qi is blocked up": The uses of environmental determinism in Han (206 BCE–220 CE) and Tang (618–907 CE) Chinese interpretations of the ‘barbarians,’ Shao-yun Yang

23. The Races of ‘India’ in the Early Ages of Reconnaissance, Galia Halpern

O autorze

Rebecca Futo Kennedy is Associate Professor of Classics at Denison University.　

Molly Jones-Lewis is Lecturer in Ancient Studies at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.