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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Romm, James S. Edges of the earth in ancient thought. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1992 (OCoLC)644067344 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James S Romm |
| ISBN: | 0691069336 9780691069333 |
| OCLC Number: | 24064787 |
| Description: | xvi, 228 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Geography as a Literary Tradition -- The Boundaries of Earth -- Boundaries and the Boundless -- Ocean and Cosmic Disorder -- Roads around the World -- Herodotus and the Changing World Picture -- Aristotle and After -- Ethiopian and Hyperborean -- The Blameless Ethiopians -- The Fortunate Hyperboreans -- Arimaspians and Scythians -- The Kunokephaloi -- Wonders of the East -- Before Alexander -- Marvel-Collectors and Critics -- The Late Romance Tradition -- Ultima Thule and Beyond -- Antipodal Ambitions -- The North Sea Coast -- The Headwaters of the Nile -- The Atlantic Horizon -- Geography and Fiction -- Ocean and Poetry -- The Voyage of Odysseus -- Pytheas, Euhemerus, and Others -- The Fictions of Exploration -- Epilogue: After Columbus. |
| Responsibility: | James S. Romm. |
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Abstract:
The "edges of the earth" became the basis of a literary tradition, surveyed here, 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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