European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition

by Wolfgang Haase (Editor), Reinhold Meyer (Editor)

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ISBN-13:	9783110115727
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	10/01/1993
Edition description:	Reprint 2011
Pages:	719
Product dimensions:	7.09(w) x 9.65(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

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