ISBN:
311087024X
,
9783110870244
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxviii, 681 p)
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Classical tradition and the Americas
DDC:
303.3/8709
Schlagwort(e):
Civilization, Classical Study and teaching
;
Public opinion History
;
Civilization ; Classical influences
;
Civilization, Classical ; Study and teaching
;
Public opinion
;
International relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
History
;
Public opinion, European
;
America Relations
;
America Civilization
;
Classical influences
;
America Foreign public opinion, European
;
Europe Relations
;
America
;
Europe
Kurzfassung:
""The Euhemerist 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 â€?Antipodesâ€?. The Myth of Unknown Countries between Antiquity and the Renaissance""; ""The Amazon Myth and Latin America""; ""Â"El DoradoÂ" 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 (15thâ€?18th Centuries)""
Kurzfassung:
""America and the Classical Tradition: Preface and Introduction""; ""Volume I.1: 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 orbos�: 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""
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references
