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Format: 1 online resource (681p.)

ISBN: 9783110870244

Series Statement: The Classical Tradition and the Americas ; Volume 1/Part1

Note: Frontmatter -- , America and the Classical Tradition: Preface and Introduction -- , Contents -- , I. SCHOLARLY AND LITERARY IMAGES OF THE NEW WORLD FROM THE TIME OF COLUMBUS TO THE PRESENT -- , 1. GENERAL SUBJECTS -- , Classical Models of World Geography and Their Transformation Following the Discovery of America -- , New World and "novos orbes": Seneca in the Renaissance Debate over Ancient Knowledge of the Americas -- , The Adjustment of Ptolemaic Atlases to Feature the New World -- , Classical Ethnography and Its Influence on the European Perception of the Peoples of the New World -- , The Euhemerist Tradition and the European Perception and Description of the American Indians -- , Myths and Legends in the Old World and European Expansionism on the American Continent -- , The Other World and the 'Antipodes'. The Myth of the Unknown Countries between Antiquity and the Renaissance -- , The Amazon Myth and Latin America -- , « El Dorado » and the Myth of the Golden Fleece -- , Classical Antiquity, America, and the Myth of the Noble Savage -- , Adveniat tandem Typhis qui detegat orbes COLUMBUS in Neo-Latin Epic Poetry (16th-18th Centuries) -- , The American Indians and the Ancients of Europe: The Idea of Comparison and the Construction of Historical Time in the 18th Century -- , Backmatter

Additional Edition: ISBN 978-3-11-011572-7

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110870244

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110870244