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Ecocide in the past and today

Created by Pauline ROBIN
Last updated by Pauline ROBIN 1 year 2 months ago
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La Terre-Mère, sculpture végétale, Jardin botanique d'Atlanta

 

THE ORIGINS OF ECOCIDE

THE MYTH OF ERYSICHTON

Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII, 738-884

 

Texte latin et traduction en français :

http://bcs.fltr.ucl.ac.be/METAM/Met08/M-08-725-884.htm

 

English translation + vocabulary :

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028%3Abook%3D8%3Acard%3D728

 

Myth of Eryssichton in english, audio version :

https://classictales.co.uk/metamorphoses/erysichthon

 

 

Do a lexical search in pairs on these words :

- anthropologist, anthropocene, anthropocentric, anthropised

- pandemic, epidemic

- pathogen

- zoonosis

- indigenous

- microbiota

- cosmopolitanism

 

Turn the wheel and give the definition of the word :

https://wheelofnames.com/7yt-c57

 

 

You can consult online articles on the concept of ecocide: definition, law, history, news, artistic and poetic engagement with the subject.

 

https://ladigitale.dev/digibunch/#/b/659e5817ec850

 

 

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