Erdbeben in der Antike

Ancient Greeks and Romans lived in one of the world's most seismically active regions. Contemporary reports and literature detail not only the catastrophic effects of earthquakes but also provide insights into how these societies understood them. The current volume goes beyond traditional research practices of cataloguing individual incidents and processing explanatory approaches by exploring how events of seismic activity were viewed, seeking out the possibilities and limits of reconstructing past quakes and examining methods of literary representation. Expertise is contributed from the fields of history, literature, archaeology, epigraphy, historical seismology and sinology.