The edges of the earth in ancient thought : geography, exploration, and fiction /

The "edges of the earth" became the basis of a literary tradition, surveyed here, 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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Autor principal: Romm, James S.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1992.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvj7wpwp