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Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans by J. Donald Hughes (Hardcover, 1993)

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Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inch; 1¼ pounds. Many people express surprise when they are told that environmental problems existed in the ancient world; they are used to thinking of the environment as an exclusively modern concern. But an examination of the evidence shows that the Greeks and Romans not only suffered from some of the same predicaments that plague the present scene, but in many cases they were aware of them and commented on them. In Pan's Travail Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from exploitation of the natural world. Focusing on Greece and Rome, as well as on areas subject to their influences, Hughes offers a detailed look at the impact of humans and their technologies on the eco.