European Images of the Americas and the Classical TraditionWolfgang Haase, Reinhold Meyer No detailed description available for "European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition". |
Contents
Seneca in the Renaissance Debate over Ancient Knowledge of the Americas | 77 |
The Adjustment of Ptolemaic Atlases to Feature the New World | 117 |
Classical Ethnography and Its Influence on the European Perception of the Peoples of the New World | 135 |
The Euhemerist and the European Perception and Description of the American Indians | 173 |
Myths and Legends in the Old World and European Expansionism on the American Continent | 189 |
The Other World and the Antipodes The Myth of Unknown Countries between Antiquity and the Renaissance | 241 |
The Amazon Myth and Latin America | 285 |
El Dorado and the Myth of the Golden Fleece | 339 |
Classical Antiquity America and the Myth of the Noble Savage | 379 |
Adveniat tandem Typhis qui detegat orbes COLUMBUS in NeoLatin Epic Poetry 15th18th Centuries | 420 |
The Idea of Comparison and the Construction of Historical Time in the 18th Century | 658 |
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ACOSTA Aeneas Aeneid Amazons America ancient Antipodes antiquity Aretia Aristotle Atlantis Book Cannibals CARRARA CASAS centre century Christian CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS classical tradition Colón Columbeis COLUMBUS COLUMBUS's conquest conquistadores continent Cratesian culture didactic discovery divine doctrine Dorado earth edition El Dorado epic essay Europe European expedition explorers FERDINAND Fernández FONTENELLE GAMBARA geographic gold golden age Golden Fleece Greek hemisphere Hispaniola IDEM Inca Inca Empire Indians Indies inhabitants island Jesuit José de Acosta King LAFITAU land Latin legend London Madrid Medea medieval Michael Scot MICKL Middle Ages motif myth narrator native Neo-Latin noble savage Ocean oikoumene Orbe orbis Orellana OVIEDO Paris passage PETER MARTYR PLACCIUS poem poet POLYDORE VERGIL Portuguese Ptolemy Ptolemy's quae quod reference region Renaissance Roman Seneca Spain Spaniards Spanish STELLA terra theory THEVET Tiphys translation University Vergil volume CTA voyage women World zones