The Classical Tradition and the Americas : : (CTA). / Volume 1/Part1, : European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition / / ed. by Wolfgang Haase.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Classics and Near East Studies 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: CRO, STELIO,; DILKE, MARGARET S.,; DILKE, OSWALD A. W.,; HAASE, WOLFGANG,; HOFMANN, HEINZ,; IACONO, ALFONSO M .,; LESTRINGANT, FRANK,; MARCH, KATHLEEN N.,; MASON, PETER,; MORETTI, GABRIELLA,; PASSMAN, KRISTINA Μ .,; RANDLES, W. G. L.,; ROMM, JAMES,; SÁNCHEZ, JEAN-PIERRE,
• HerausgeberIn: Haase, Wolfgang,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: The Classical Tradition and the Americas ; Volume 1/Part1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (681 p.) :; 10 Taf.
• Other title: I-IV --; America and the Classical Tradition: Preface and Introduction --; Contents --; 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 orbes": 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 --; The Euhemerist Tradition 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 'Antipodes'. The Myth of the Unknown Countries between Antiquity and the Renaissance --; The Amazon Myth and Latin America --; « El Dorado » 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 (16th-18th Centuries) --; The American Indians and the Ancients of Europe: The Idea of Comparison and the Construction of Historical Time in the 18th Century --; 692-694
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110870244; 9783110636116
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110870244
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Wolfgang Haase.