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THE EDGES OF THE EARTH IN ANCIENT THOUGHT
By: James S. Romm
Princeton University Press
September 1994
On Sale: September 19, 1994
247 pages
ISBN: 0691037884
EAN: 9780691037882
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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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