The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction - Rilegato

Romm, James S.

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9780691069333: The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction

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ISBN 10: 0691069336 ISBN 13: 9780691069333

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1992

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For the Greeks and Romans the earth's furthest 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 S. 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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"An immensely engaging and erudite work, packed full of provocative insights.... Romm successfully sorts out for us some of the most complex traditions of ancient geographic literature; and he deserves high marks for doing it in such an intelligent, original, and attractive manner."--T. Corey Brennan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"Romm's incisive and brilliant analysis of Greco-Roman ideas of earth's geography is grounded in a linguistic interpretation of Greek conceptions of space and boundary. . . . His work captures the imagination as few others have and will provide material for the study of the classical legacy in the shaping of the modern scientific mind for many years to come."--Helen Liebel-Weckowicz, Classical Bulletin

Contenuti:

	Acknowledgments
	Works Frequently Cited
	Introduction: Geography as a Literary Tradition	3
1	The Boundaries of Earth	9
	Boundaries and the Boundless	11
	Ocean and Cosmic Disorder	20
	Roads around the World	26
	Herodotus and the Changing World Picture	32
	Aristotle and After	41
2	Ethiopian and Hyperborean	45
	The Blameless Ethiopians	49
	The Fortunate Hyperboreans	60
	Arimaspians and Scythians	67
	The Kunokephaloi	77
3	Wonders of the East	82
	Before Alexander	83
	Marvel-Collectors and Critics	94
	The Late Romance Tradition	109
4	Ultima Thule and Beyond	121
	Antipodal Ambition	124
	The North Sea Coast	140
	The Headwaters of the Nile	149
	The Atlantic Horizon	156
5	Geography and Fiction	172
	Ocean and Poetry	176
	The Voyage of Odysseus	183
	Pytheas, Euhemerus, and Others	196
	The Fiction Election	202
	Epilogue: After Columbus	215
	Index	223