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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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The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought, James Romm
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- Année de publication
- 1994
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- Titre
- The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- James Romm
- Éditeur
- Princeton University Press
- Publié
- 1994
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 247
- ISBN10
- 0691037884
- ISBN13
- 9780691037882
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- Géographie & Topographie
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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.