European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition

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Wolfgang Haase, Reinhold Meyer
Walter de Gruyter, Aug 2, 2011 - History - 719 pages
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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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