Author | : James S. Romm |
File Size | : 40,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 09 October 1994 |
ISBN | : 0691037884 |
Pages | : 252 pages |
The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought by James S. Romm Book PDF Summary
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.