By Russell Meiggs
This is often the 1st entire research of trees provide and insist within the close to East and the realm of historic Greece and Rome. Drawing from a variety of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological assets, Meiggs lines altering styles of their ancient atmosphere, and examines the bushes necessities of fleets and armies, construction, agriculture, and sculpture and furnishings. He additionally attracts a tentative define of the constitution of the trees exchange, with designated emphasis on delivery, and determines that the half performed by way of Greece and Rome in deforestation has been enormously exaggerated.
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Scholars working with the University of Minnesota's Messenian expedition have produced a credible outline of the woodland pattern in Messenia during the Bronze Age (p. html [03-01-2011 21:37:42] page_37 < previous page page_37 next page > Page 37 taken from lake Monterosi in Latium have shown the changes in vegetation when the Romans opened up the country which the Ciminian forest had once dominated, by driving the Via Cassia through Sutrium into central Etruria (p. 246). 300 BC) all cultivated.
The arrangement is logical, the style undistinguished but clear, the approach scientific and impersonal. There are no diverting anecdotes and no moral disquisitions. We cannot therefore feel that we know Theophrastus personally. A random collection of anecdotes by Diogenes Laertius writing more than four hundred years after Theophrastus' death is no substitute for contemporary evidence and the rest of his works. 13 His personality informs his writing and his nephew has left an account of his career and of his method of working.
The famous temple of Hera on the island of Samos was built in a marshy area which preserved a considerable number of dedications in wood statuettes, bowls, plates, and fragments of furniture. In two ancient spring sanctuaries in France hundreds of wooden statues were found, some crude, others finely carved dedications to the goddess of the spring preserved in a bed of mud. html [03-01-2011 21:37:24] page_14 < previous page page_14 next page > Page 14 Roman fort can be recovered from the surviving timbers.