The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought
Geography, Exploration, and Fiction| By: | James S. Romm |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780691069333 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780691201702 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 1992 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.