Esther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. She is a series editor for the Bloomsbury series Ancient Environments, co-editor of Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience (2022) and author of Envy, Poison and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (2016). Christopher Schliephake is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Augsburg University, Germany. He is author of The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World (2020) and editor of Ecocritisim, Ecology and Cultures in Antiquity (2017).

• List of ContributorsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction, Esther Eidinow and Christopher SchliephakeI. Control1. Perilous Environs: The Rustic World in Aratus and Nicander, Leonardo Cazzadori 2. Shared Suffering and Cyclical Destruction: Failures of Environmental Control in the Aeneid, Aaron M. Seider3. Chaos and Kosmos: An Ecocritical Reading of Seneca’s Thyestes, Simona MartoranaII. Connection4. The Interspecies and Trans-Corporeal Mesh in Euripides’ Bacchae, Maria Combatti5. The Relationality of Darkness in Thucydides, Esther Eidinow 6. The Only Constant Is Change – The Environmental Dimension of Plutarch’s De defectu oraculorum, Christopher SchliephakeIII. Contact7. Poseidon’s Mode of Action: Divine Agency and the Helike Disaster, Michiel van Veldhuizen8. River, Agency, and Gender: An Ecocritical Reading of the Myths of the Tiber, Kresimir Vukovic9. Ecological Grief and the Safaitic Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia, Eris Williams ReedIV. Change10. Ecological Grief in Aelius Aristides and Philostratus, Jason König 11. An Allegory of the ‘Anthropocene’: Environmental and textual disorder in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae, Marco Formisano12. The Environmental Ethics of Delphi: Back-filling Latour’s Facing Gaia, Mark D. Usher

The volume is highly recommended ... It also succeeds in demonstrating to non-classicists (by adequately introducing authors, works and contexts) the relevance of antiquity for understanding contemporary ecological concerns, and in contributing to ecocritical theory. Conversing with Chaos succeeds on every front and establishes itself as a landmark in the ecocritical study of the ancient world.

Esther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. She is a series editor for the Bloomsbury series Ancient Environments, co-editor of Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience (2022) and author of Envy, Poison and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (2016). Christopher Schliephake is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Augsburg University, Germany. He is author of The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World (2020) and editor of Ecocritisim, Ecology and Cultures in Antiquity (2017).

• List of ContributorsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction, Esther Eidinow and Christopher SchliephakeI. Control1. Perilous Environs: The Rustic World in Aratus and Nicander, Leonardo Cazzadori 2. Shared Suffering and Cyclical Destruction: Failures of Environmental Control in the Aeneid, Aaron M. Seider3. Chaos and Kosmos: An Ecocritical Reading of Seneca’s Thyestes, Simona MartoranaII. Connection4. The Interspecies and Trans-Corporeal Mesh in Euripides’ Bacchae, Maria Combatti5. The Relationality of Darkness in Thucydides, Esther Eidinow 6. The Only Constant Is Change – The Environmental Dimension of Plutarch’s De defectu oraculorum, Christopher SchliephakeIII. Contact7. Poseidon’s Mode of Action: Divine Agency and the Helike Disaster, Michiel van Veldhuizen8. River, Agency, and Gender: An Ecocritical Reading of the Myths of the Tiber, Kresimir Vukovic9. Ecological Grief and the Safaitic Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia, Eris Williams ReedIV. Change10. Ecological Grief in Aelius Aristides and Philostratus, Jason König 11. An Allegory of the ‘Anthropocene’: Environmental and textual disorder in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae, Marco Formisano12. The Environmental Ethics of Delphi: Back-filling Latour’s Facing Gaia, Mark D. Usher

The volume is highly recommended ... It also succeeds in demonstrating to non-classicists (by adequately introducing authors, works and contexts) the relevance of antiquity for understanding contemporary ecological concerns, and in contributing to ecocritical theory. Conversing with Chaos succeeds on every front and establishes itself as a landmark in the ecocritical study of the ancient world.

Esther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. She is a series editor for the Bloomsbury series Ancient Environments, co-editor of Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience (2022) and author of Envy, Poison and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (2016). Christopher Schliephake is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Augsburg University, Germany. He is author of The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World (2020) and editor of Ecocritisim, Ecology and Cultures in Antiquity (2017).

• List of ContributorsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction, Esther Eidinow and Christopher SchliephakeI. Control1. Perilous Environs: The Rustic World in Aratus and Nicander, Leonardo Cazzadori 2. Shared Suffering and Cyclical Destruction: Failures of Environmental Control in the Aeneid, Aaron M. Seider3. Chaos and Kosmos: An Ecocritical Reading of Seneca’s Thyestes, Simona MartoranaII. Connection4. The Interspecies and Trans-Corporeal Mesh in Euripides’ Bacchae, Maria Combatti5. The Relationality of Darkness in Thucydides, Esther Eidinow 6. The Only Constant Is Change – The Environmental Dimension of Plutarch’s De defectu oraculorum, Christopher SchliephakeIII. Contact7. Poseidon’s Mode of Action: Divine Agency and the Helike Disaster, Michiel van Veldhuizen8. River, Agency, and Gender: An Ecocritical Reading of the Myths of the Tiber, Kresimir Vukovic9. Ecological Grief and the Safaitic Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia, Eris Williams ReedIV. Change10. Ecological Grief in Aelius Aristides and Philostratus, Jason König 11. An Allegory of the ‘Anthropocene’: Environmental and textual disorder in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae, Marco Formisano12. The Environmental Ethics of Delphi: Back-filling Latour’s Facing Gaia, Mark D. Usher

The volume is highly recommended ... It also succeeds in demonstrating to non-classicists (by adequately introducing authors, works and contexts) the relevance of antiquity for understanding contemporary ecological concerns, and in contributing to ecocritical theory. Conversing with Chaos succeeds on every front and establishes itself as a landmark in the ecocritical study of the ancient world.