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The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought : Geography, Exploration, and Fiction / James S. Romm.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (247 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691201702
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.93591 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Works Frequently Cited -- Introduction -- One . The Boundaries of Earth -- Two. Ethiopian and Hyperborean -- Three. Wonders of the East -- Four. Ultima Thule and Beyond -- Five. Geography and Fiction -- Epilogue. After Columbus -- Index
Summary: For the Greeks and Romans the earth's farthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. The alien qualities of these "edges of the earth" became the basis of a literary tradition that endured throughout antiquity and into the Renaissance, despite the growing challenges of emerging scientific perspectives. Here James Romm surveys this tradition, revealing that the Greeks, and to a somewhat lesser extent the Romans, saw geography not as a branch of physical science but as an important literary genre.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Works Frequently Cited -- Introduction -- One . The Boundaries of Earth -- Two. Ethiopian and Hyperborean -- Three. Wonders of the East -- Four. Ultima Thule and Beyond -- Five. Geography and Fiction -- Epilogue. After Columbus -- Index

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For the Greeks and Romans the earth's farthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. The alien qualities of these "edges of the earth" became the basis of a literary tradition that endured throughout antiquity and into the Renaissance, despite the growing challenges of emerging scientific perspectives. Here James Romm surveys this tradition, revealing that the Greeks, and to a somewhat lesser extent the Romans, saw geography not as a branch of physical science but as an important literary genre.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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