The Classics Lectures Series: Greening the Greeks, Recycling the Romans with J. Donald Hughes
Please join is as The Classics Lectures Series Presents: J. Donald Hughes, "Greening the Greeks, Recycling the Romans" on Tuesday, April 15 at 5:30 p.m. in room 104 Van Hise Hall. This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Classics with funding provided by the FIG and Honors programs. This lecture is free and open to the public! Read more about J. Donald Hughes and his work below!
J. Donald Hughes is John Evans Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Denver. His groundbreaking books, Ecology in Ancient Civilizations (1975) and Pan's Travail: The Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans (1994, now in a second edition as Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans: Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean, 2014) demonstrated the inextricable links between the ancients and the environment, and argued persuasively that ecological factors played a major part in the decline of Greco-Roman civilization. But his expertise is certainly not confined to the Classics: his publications include articles on the environmental history of the Pacific Islands and South Asia, a book on Native American ecology (North American Indian Ecology, 2nd ed. 1996), an overview of the discipline of environmental history (What is Environmental History? 2006), a study of the environmental history of the Mediterranean (The Mediterranean: An Environmental History, 2005), and an environmental history of the world (An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life, second edition, 2009).
J. Donald Hughes is John Evans Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Denver. His groundbreaking books, Ecology in Ancient Civilizations (1975) and Pan's Travail: The Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans (1994, now in a second edition as Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans: Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean, 2014) demonstrated the inextricable links between the ancients and the environment, and argued persuasively that ecological factors played a major part in the decline of Greco-Roman civilization. But his expertise is certainly not confined to the Classics: his publications include articles on the environmental history of the Pacific Islands and South Asia, a book on Native American ecology (North American Indian Ecology, 2nd ed. 1996), an overview of the discipline of environmental history (What is Environmental History? 2006), a study of the environmental history of the Mediterranean (The Mediterranean: An Environmental History, 2005), and an environmental history of the world (An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life, second edition, 2009).
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