1992, ISBN: 9780691069333

[PU: Princeton University Press], XVI, 228 p. Cloth with dustjacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Cl… More...

[PU: Princeton University Press], XVI, 228 p. Cloth with dustjacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband weist leichte Randläsuren auf und ist etwas angeschmutzt, kleiner Fleck auf Fußschnitt, sonst guter Zustand / binding has slight edge wear and is a bit soiled, small stain on bottom edge, otherwise good condition. - 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. / Contents Acknowledgments Works Frequently Cited Introduction Geography as a Literary Tradition One The Boundaries of Earth Boundaries and the Boundless Ocean and Cosmic Disorder Roads around the World Herodotus and the Changing World Picture Aristotle and After Two Ethiopian and Hyperborean The Blameless Ethiopians The Fortunate Hyperboreans Arimaspians and Scythians The Kunokephaloi Three Wonders of the East Before Alexander Marvel-Collectors and Critics The Late Romance Tradition Four Ultima Thule and Beyond Antipodal Ambitions The North Sea Coast The Headwaters of the Nile The Atlantic Horizon Five Geography and Fiction Ocean and Poetry The Voyage of Odysseus Pytheas, Euhemerus, and Others The Fictions of Exploration Epilogue After Colum, DE, [SC: 4.50], gebraucht; gut, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 540g], Banküberweisung, Offene Rechnung, PayPal, Expédition internationale<

1992, ISBN: 9780691069333

XVI, 228 p. Cloth with dustjacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From th… More...

XVI, 228 p. Cloth with dustjacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband weist leichte Randläsuren auf und ist etwas angeschmutzt, kleiner Fleck auf Fußschnitt, sonst guter Zustand / binding has slight edge wear and is a bit soiled, small stain on bottom edge, otherwise good condition. - For the Greeks and Romans the earths 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 boundariesthe 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 antiquitys most daring innovators seized on geography as a theme for prose fiction, and the explorers log became an important antecedent of the early modern novel. / Contents Acknowledgments Works Frequently Cited Introduction Geography as a Literary Tradition One The Boundaries of Earth Boundaries and the Boundless Ocean and Cosmic Disorder Roads around the World Herodotus and the Changing World Picture Aristotle and After Two Ethiopian and Hyperborean The Blameless Ethiopians The Fortunate Hyperboreans Arimaspians and Scythians The Kunokephaloi Three Wonders of the East Before Alexander Marvel-Collectors and Critics The Late Romance Tradition Four Ultima Thule and Beyond Antipodal Ambitions The North Sea Coast The Headwaters of the Nile The Atlantic Horizon Five Geography and Fiction Ocean and Poetry The Voyage of Odysseus Pytheas, Euhemerus, and Others The Fictions of Exploration Epilogue After Columbus Index. ISBN 9780691069333 Versand D: 4,50 EUR , [PU:Princeton University Press,]<