Antiquity in Distress. Epidemics and Disasters in Greece and Rome.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 23247 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 340 p, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251451558 |
Natural disasters in Antiquity were not very different from what they are today. What has changed are the different ways of inhabiting and exploiting nature, so much so that the same disasters can be much more dangerous and much more deadly today. By delving into these admirable but little-known pages, in which geographers, historians, writers, poets, philosophers, and preachers exalt the ancient Mediterranean world—and its inimitable light—captured in the terrible moments when it slips away, visited in its ruins, evoked in vain in its ruins, we will always find the same fragile but irresistible humanity: capable of transfiguring its disarray and taking the beautiful risk of surviving.
Natural disasters in Antiquity were not very different from what they are today. What has changed are the different ways of inhabiting and exploiting nature, so much so that the same disasters can be much more dangerous and much more deadly today. By delving into these admirable but little-known pages, in which geographers, historians, writers, poets, philosophers, and preachers exalt the ancient Mediterranean world—and its inimitable light—captured in the terrible moments when it slips away, visited in its ruins, evoked in vain in its ruins, we will always find the same fragile but irresistible humanity: capable of transfiguring its disarray and taking the beautiful risk of surviving.