The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction
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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020) |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (247 pages) |
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