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The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought

Geography, Exploration, and Fiction

James S. Romm

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Sachbuch / Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Antike

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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.

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Poetry, The Philosopher, Myth, Geography, Sulla, Excursus, Carthage, Euhemerus, Scythians, Arrian, Peloponnese, Literature, Ancient history, Anacharsis, Georgics, Issedones, Pseudohistory, Caesar and Pompey, Juvenal, Late Antiquity, Democritus, The Geographer, Pythagoreanism, Creation myth, Plutarch, Narrative, Ancient literature, Geosophy, Periplus, Pytheas, Quintilian, Digression, Philosopher, Aeschylus, Manifest destiny, Ctesias, Megasthenes, Hyperborea, Strabo, Etymology, Suetonius, Epigram, Onesicritus, Eratosthenes, Paradoxography, Tacitus, Ephorus, Prometheus Bound, Aeneid, Apollonius of Rhodes, Prehistory, Anaximander, Mythology, Pliny the Elder, Apotheosis, Xenophanes, Argonautica, Notion (ancient city), Stephanus of Byzantium, Ogygia, Bactria, Hellenistic period, Earth and water, Acoreus, Structure of the Earth, Principate, Symplegades, Trojan War, Hesiod, Herodotus