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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - I-IV -- America and the Classical Tradition: Preface and Introduction -- Contents -- I. SCHOLARLY AND LITERARY IMAGES OF THE NEW WORLD FROM THE TIME OF COLUMBUS TO THE PRESENT -- 1. GENERAL SUBJECTS -- Classical Models of World Geography and Their Transformation Following the Discovery of America -- New World and 'novos orbes': Seneca in the Renaissance Debate over Ancient Knowledge of the Americas -- The Adjustment of Ptolemaic Atlases to Feature the New World -- Classical Ethnography and Its Influence on the European Perception of the Peoples of the New World -- The Euhemerist Tradition and the European Perception and Description of the American Indians -- Myths and Legends in the Old World and European Expansionism on the American Continent -- The Other World and the 'Antipodes'. The Myth of the Unknown Countries between Antiquity and the Renaissance -- The Amazon Myth and Latin America -- « El Dorado » and the Myth of the Golden Fleece -- Classical Antiquity, America, and the Myth of the Noble Savage -- Adveniat tandem Typhis qui detegat orbes COLUMBUS in Neo-Latin Epic Poetry (16th-18th Centuries) -- The American Indians and the Ancients of Europe: The Idea of Comparison and the Construction of Historical Time in the 18th Century -- 692-694. Seller Inventory # 9783110115727
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Title: European Images of the Americas and the ...
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Buch
Condition: Neu
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