Fates of Romes

Abstract

<jats:p>Kyle Harper's book <jats:italic>The Fate of Rome</jats:italic> marks the thunderous entry of Nature into the world of ancient history of the twenty-first century. This is not the first book devoted to questions of climate and diseases in the ancient world, but its publication nonetheless represents a turning point. From now on, whether they work on political, social, economic, or even religious history, ancient historians will no longer be able to ignore these factors in their own writings. That is not to say that all the theses of the book, especially its natural determinism, should be accepted uncritically.</jats:p>

Middle Republican Connectivities

“…Regional and global trends concealing local variability: Peyron et al 2017: 260; Haldon et al 2018: 5–7. Bresson 2020: 236–7 notes that cooling could raise land productivity in the Mediterranean while at the same time lowering it in northern Europe.…”

“… 93 We quote from Bresson 2020: 233; collaboration of this sort will need to take to heart the recommendations of Degroot et al 2021. For some first attempts to link local climate change and human behaviour in first-millennium b.c.e.…”