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, 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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- ISBN: 978-0-691-20170-2
- EAN: 9780691201702
- Produktnummer: 35944220
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 247 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 0 KB
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James S. Romm
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