Environmental Thought in Antiquity Environmental Thought in Antiquity

An exploration into the Christian literary and medieval artistic representations of Eve from Genesis 1-3 and discussion of how these depictions communicate an underlying message of environmental domination and destruction. Hosted by Lauren Beagle and Thornton Muncher in collaboration with Birmingham-Southern College. 



Clink these links to view the artwork discussed in the podcast.

An overview of Eve in Medieval art: https://www.christianiconography.info/adamEve.html 

Adam and Eve in Creation: https://www.christianiconography.info/sicily/creationEvePalatineChapel.html 

God’s Confrontation of Adam and Eve: https://www.christianiconography.info/sicily/godConfrontsAdamEveMonreale.html 

The Serpent with the Face of A Woman: https://www.christianiconography.info/e-Codices/baselUniversitaetsbibliothekA_II_1/adamSinSchopf.html 

 

To view our entire bibliography, click this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19WncvzjHtZwf-b88mVKoA-rf29bJIpqZDyaDeUsXYKE/edit?usp=sharing 

 

To watch Beyonce’s “Formation” Music Video, click this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDZJPJV__bQ 

In this podcast, Luke and Erin explain how policy, globalization, and environmental interaction changed and expanded the course of the Antonine Plague, the Bubonic Plague, and Covid-19 as they affected modern-day Italy. They argue that these three human activities affect all plagues and that humans need to be on the lookout for how to reduce these impacts and keep future plagues as harmless as possible.

Some resources used in the making of this podcast are The Fate of Rome, written by Kyle Harper; P. Aelius Aristides: The Complete Works, translated by Charles A. Behr; The Decameron, written by Boccaccio; and "Plague Pandemic May Have Been Driven by Climate Change, Not Rats" by Sarah Zielinski.

In this podcast we discuss the theory that the Black Death was an act of balancing nature. 

A podcast about Sir Walter Raleigh and his journal "The Discovery of Guiana." 

Kate Powell, Allison Brooks, Bailey Dupre, and Chloe Cowgur

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