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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780691037882
- Subject Area
- Science, History
- Publication Name
- Edges Of the Earth in Ancient Thought : Geography, Exploration, and Fiction
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Subject
- Ancient / General, Earth Sciences / Geography, Europe / General
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 11.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691037884
ISBN-13
9780691037882
eBay Product ID (ePID)
658032
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Publication Name
Edges Of the Earth in Ancient Thought : Geography, Exploration, and Fiction
Language
English
Publication Year
1994
Subject
Ancient / General, Earth Sciences / Geography, Europe / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
20
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Romm's incisive and brilliant analysis of Greco-Roman ideas of earth's geography is grounded in a linguistic interpretation of Greek conceptions of space and boundary. . . . His work captures the imagination as few others have and will provide material for the study of the classical legacy in the shaping of the modern scientific mind for many years to come. -- Helen Liebel-Weckowicz, Classical Bulletin, An immensely engaging and erudite work, packed full of provocative insights.... Romm successfully sorts out for us some of the most complex traditions of ancient geographic literature; and he deserves high marks for doing it in such an intelligent, original, and attractive manner., "Romm's incisive and brilliant analysis of Greco-Roman ideas of earth's geography is grounded in a linguistic interpretation of Greek conceptions of space and boundary. . . . His work captures the imagination as few others have and will provide material for the study of the classical legacy in the shaping of the modern scientific mind for many years to come." --Helen Liebel-Weckowicz, Classical Bulletin, Romm's incisive and brilliant analysis of Greco-Roman ideas of earth's geography is grounded in a linguistic interpretation of Greek conceptions of space and boundary. . . . His work captures the imagination as few others have and will provide material for the study of the classical legacy in the shaping of the modern scientific mind for many years to come., "An immensely engaging and erudite work, packed full of provocative insights.... Romm successfully sorts out for us some of the most complex traditions of ancient geographic literature; and he deserves high marks for doing it in such an intelligent, original, and attractive manner." --T. Corey Brennan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, "Romm's incisive and brilliant analysis of Greco-Roman ideas of earth's geography is grounded in a linguistic interpretation of Greek conceptions of space and boundary. . . . His work captures the imagination as few others have and will provide material for the study of the classical legacy in the shaping of the modern scientific mind for many years to come."-- Helen Liebel-Weckowicz, Classical Bulletin, "An immensely engaging and erudite work, packed full of provocative insights.... Romm successfully sorts out for us some of the most complex traditions of ancient geographic literature; and he deserves high marks for doing it in such an intelligent, original, and attractive manner."-- T. Corey Brennan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, An immensely engaging and erudite work, packed full of provocative insights.... Romm successfully sorts out for us some of the most complex traditions of ancient geographic literature; and he deserves high marks for doing it in such an intelligent, original, and attractive manner. -- T. Corey Brennan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Dewey Decimal
809/.93591
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Works Frequently Cited Introduction: Geography as a Literary Tradition 3 1 The Boundaries of Earth 9 Boundaries and the Boundless 11 Ocean and Cosmic Disorder 20 Roads around the World 26 Herodotus and the Changing World Picture 32 Aristotle and After 41 2 Ethiopian and Hyperborean 45 The Blameless Ethiopians 49 The Fortunate Hyperboreans 60 Arimaspians and Scythians 67 The Kunokephaloi 77 3 Wonders of the East 82 Before Alexander 83 Marvel-Collectors and Critics 94 The Late Romance Tradition 109 4 Ultima Thule and Beyond 121 Antipodal Ambition 124 The North Sea Coast 140 The Headwaters of the Nile 149 The Atlantic Horizon 156 5 Geography and Fiction 172 Ocean and Poetry 176 The Voyage of Odysseus 183 Pytheas, Euhemerus, and Others 196 The Fiction Election 202 Epilogue: After Columbus 215 Index 223
Synopsis
For the Greeks and Romans the earth's furthest 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 S. 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. The tradition described by Romm emerged in Homer and Hesiod, whose imaginative geography defined the earth by giving it boundaries - the river Ocean, the Pillars of Heracles, and other mythic forms of circumscription. Other Greek authors developed exotic literary landscapes by filling these "limits" with idealized human societies and bizarre or monstrous animal life, while the Romans adapted the concept of perimeters to goals of imperial conquest. As Hellenistic and Roman voyages of exploration failed to confirm the fancied landscapes, the tradition came to be seen as one in which invented narratives had masqueraded as truths.As a result some of late antiquity's most daring innovators seized on geography as a theme for prose fiction, and the explorer's log became an important antecedent of the early modern novel., For the Greeks and Romans the earth's farthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. This book reveals 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., 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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