European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition - nieuw boek

EAN (ISBN-13): 9783110870244
ISBN (ISBN-10): 311087024X
Verschijningsjaar: 1994
Uitgever: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG

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ISBN/EAN: 9783110870244

ISBN - alternatieve schrijfwijzen:
3-11-087024-X, 978-3-11-087024-4
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Auteur van het boek: kula witold, haas wolf, wolfgang haas, wolfgang haase, meyer, thomas oberlies, reinhold
Titel van het boek: the other americas, doing images, classical tradition americas, america

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Gegevens van de uitgever

Auteur: Wolfgang Haase; Reinhold Meyer
Titel: The Classical Tradition and the Americas; The Classical Tradition and the Americas / European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition
Uitgeverij: De Gruyter
681 Bladzijden
Verschijningsjaar: 2011-08-02
Berlin/Boston
Taal: Engels
429,00 € (DE)
429,00 € (AT)
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EA; E107; Nonbooks, PBS / Geschichte/Altertum; Antike; Verstehen; HIS000000 HISTORY / General; Classical history / classical civilisation; Social & cultural history; HISTORY; Ancient; Classical Studies, other; Altertum; Alte Welt; BB

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