TY - BOOK AU - CRO,STELIO AU - DILKE,MARGARET S. AU - DILKE,OSWALD A.W. AU - HAASE,WOLFGANG AU - HOFMANN,HEINZ AU - Haase,Wolfgang AU - IACONO,ALFONSO M AU - LESTRINGANT,FRANK AU - MARCH,KATHLEEN N. AU - MASON,PETER AU - MORETTI,GABRIELLA AU - PASSMAN,KRISTINA Μ AU - RANDLES,W.G.L. AU - ROMM,JAMES AU - SÁNCHEZ,JEAN-PIERRE TI - The Classical Tradition and the Americas: (CTA). T2 - The Classical Tradition and the Americas SN - 9783110115727 AV - E20 .C53 1994eb U1 - 303.3/8709 23 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Civilization, Classical KW - Study and teaching KW - America KW - Public opinion KW - Europe KW - History KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General KW - bisacsh N1 - I-IV --; America and the Classical Tradition: Preface and Introduction --; Contents --; I. SCHOLARLY AND LITERARY IMAGES OF THE NEW WORLD FROM THE TIME OF COLUMBUS TO THE PRESENT --; 1. GENERAL SUBJECTS --; Classical Models of World Geography and Their Transformation Following the Discovery of America --; New World and "novos orbes": Seneca in the Renaissance Debate over Ancient Knowledge of the Americas --; The Adjustment of Ptolemaic Atlases to Feature the New World --; Classical Ethnography and Its Influence on the European Perception of the Peoples of the New World --; The Euhemerist Tradition and the European Perception and Description of the American Indians --; Myths and Legends in the Old World and European Expansionism on the American Continent --; The Other World and the 'Antipodes'. The Myth of the Unknown Countries between Antiquity and the Renaissance --; The Amazon Myth and Latin America --; « El Dorado » and the Myth of the Golden Fleece --; Classical Antiquity, America, and the Myth of the Noble Savage --; Adveniat tandem Typhis qui detegat orbes COLUMBUS in Neo-Latin Epic Poetry (16th-18th Centuries) --; The American Indians and the Ancients of Europe: The Idea of Comparison and the Construction of Historical Time in the 18th Century --; 692-694; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110870244 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110870244 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110870244/original ER -