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Edges Of The Earth In Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, And Fiction

Author: Romm, James S.
1st paperback ed; Paperback; Large size
242 pages
Published: October 1994
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0691037884

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.This investigation reveals that the ancient Greeks and Romans perceived the edges of the Earth as an alien realm which became the basis of a literary tradition that endured throughout antiquity and into the Renaissance, despite the growing contradictions of scientific enquiry.

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