Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought
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Acoreus
Aeneid
Aeschylus
Anacharsis
Anaximander
Ancient history
Ancient literature
Apollonius of Rhodes
Apotheosis
Argonautica
Arrian
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Bactria
Caesar and Pompey
Carthage
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Creation myth
Ctesias
Democritus
Digression
Earth and water
Ephorus
Epigram
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Eratosthenes
Etymology
Euhemerus
Excursus
Geography
Georgics
Geosophy
Hellenistic period
Herodotus
Hesiod
Hyperborea
Issedones
Juvenal
Late Antiquity
Literature
Manifest destiny
Megasthenes
Myth
Mythology
Narrative
Notion (ancient city)
Ogygia
Onesicritus
Paradoxography
Peloponnese
Periplus
Philosopher
Pliny the Elder
Plutarch
Poetry
Prehistory
Principate
Prometheus Bound
Pseudohistory
Pythagoreanism
Pytheas
Quintilian
Scythians
Stephanus of Byzantium
Strabo
Structure of the Earth
Suetonius
Sulla
Symplegades
Tacitus
The Geographer
The Philosopher
Trojan War
Xenophanes
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- ISBN 9780691037882
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
James S. Romm is Assistant Professor of Classics at Bard College.
