Ecologia e climatologia: modernità della Tarda Antichità

Within a historiographical perspective characterized by the vision of a ‘large’ Late Antiquity, it is possible to recognize extremely varied disciplinary areas, which also include ecology and climatology. The publication of two fairly recent works – respectively dedicated to ‘Climate and Disease’ and ‘Pollution and Environment’ – offers the opportunity to reflect carefully not only on the actual existence (or not) in Roman man of a real environmental conscience, but also on the responsibilities (true or presumed) of Nature and/or man in the ‘fate’ of the Roman Empire, through the specific analysis of both the exploitation of water and mineral resources and the relationship between man and other species.