Ailsa Hunt is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her work on Roman religion and its intersection with the environment includes Reviving Roman Religion: Sacred Trees in the Roman World (2016).Hilary Marlow is Senior Researcher at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, University of Cambridge, UK. She has written extensively on the interaction between people and the natural world in Jewish and Christian traditions.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsContributorsIntroduction (Ailsa Hunt, University of Birmingham, UK & Hilary Marlow (University of Cambridge, UK)1. Ancient Ideas of Politics: Mediating between Ecology and Theology (Melissa Lane, Princeton University, USA)2. The Ecology of the Sibylline Oracles (Helen Van Noorden, University of Cambridge, UK)3. Self-sufficiency as a Divine Attribute in Greek Philosophy(David Sedley, University of Cambridge, UK)4. A Lighter Shade of Green: Stoic Gods and Environmental Virtue Ethics (Christoph Jedan, University of Groningen, Netherlands)5. Cosmic Beauty in Stoicism: A Foundation for an Environmental Ethic as Love of the Other? (Jula Wildberger, American University of Paris, France)6. Some Ancient Philosophical and Religious Roots of Modern Environmentalism (Robin Attfield, Cardiff University, UK)7. Creatures in Creation: Human Perceptions of the Sea in the Hebrew Bible in Ecological Perspective (Rebecca Watson, University of Cambridge, UK)8. Reconsidering the Chthonic in Aeschylus’ Oresteia: Erinyes, the Earth’s Resources, and the Cosmic Order (Emmanuela Bakola, University of Warwick, UK)9. The Anguish of the Earth: Ecology and Warfare in the First World War and the Bible (Hilary Marlow, University of Cambridge, UK) 10. Pagan Animism: A Modern Myth for a Green Age (Ailsa Hunt, University of Birmingham, UK)NotesBibliographyIndex

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