Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Map of Troy viii
4. Prologue 1
5. chapter one Changing Interpretations of the Iliad 9
6. chapter two The Iliad in Its Historical Contexts 43
7. chapter three Defining an Ecocritical Approach 56
8. chapter four Nature and the Divine 76
9. chapter five Loggers 107
10. chapter six Farmers 126
11. chapter seven Smiths 146
12. chapter eight Achilles’s Dystopian Shield 163
13. chapter nine Humans, Rivers, Floods, and Fire 190
14. Epilogue 202
15. Acknowledgments 207
16. Notes 209
17. Bibliography 235
18. Index 263