Bleeding Trees in Ancient Myth and Modern Deforestation

Saturday 16 July 2022

By Miriam Kamil

Abstract: Kamil explores bleeding trees as an important motif in ancient literature both in the West and the East, suggesting that ‘transcultural anxiety around the wellbeing of trees’ has racked sensitive observers in societies which have drawn upon natural resources, often to the detriment of the environment.

 

Online Journal Article in: Antigone Journal (online). September, 2021.

View on: Antigone Journal

Related topics

ancient environment environmentalism female scholars

Categories & Sub-Categories

Tags

achaemenid empire alexander the great ancient warfare approaches to scholarship approaches to the ancient world archaeology athens augustus blog posts bloomsbury cambridge university press cicero classics and black culture classics education today disability studies in classics edith hall female scholars herodotus homer jstor julius caesar livy online articles ovid oxford university press persian history persians in greek literature pliny the younger podcasts roman archaeology roman empire roman imperialism roman military sallust sappho scholars of colour sparta suetonius tacitus thucydides touraj daryaee videos virgil women in antiquity youtube

Cookie preferences