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The Edges Of The Earth In Ancient Thought
James S. Romm
Princeton University Press
September 1994
On Sale: September 19, 1994
247 pages ISBN: 0691037884 EAN: 9780691037882 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
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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