The edges of the earth in ancient thought : geography, exploration, and fiction /
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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Table of 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.