New World and "novos orbes": Seneca in the Renaissance Debate over Ancient Knowledge of the Americas

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. America and the Classical Tradition: Preface and Introduction V
3. Contents XXXV
4. I. SCHOLARLY AND LITERARY IMAGES OF THE NEW WORLD FROM THE TIME OF COLUMBUS TO THE PRESENT
5. 1. GENERAL SUBJECTS
6. Classical Models of World Geography and Their Transformation Following the Discovery of America 5
7. New World and "novos orbes": Seneca in the Renaissance Debate over Ancient Knowledge of the Americas 77
8. The Adjustment of Ptolemaic Atlases to Feature the New World 117
9. Classical Ethnography and Its Influence on the European Perception of the Peoples of the New World 135
10. The Euhemerist Tradition and the European Perception and Description of the American Indians 173
11. Myths and Legends in the Old World and European Expansionism on the American Continent 189
12. The Other World and the 'Antipodes'. The Myth of the Unknown Countries between Antiquity and the Renaissance 241
13. The Amazon Myth and Latin America 285
14. « El Dorado » and the Myth of the Golden Fleece 339
15. Classical Antiquity, America, and the Myth of the Noble Savage 379
16. Adveniat tandem Typhis qui detegat orbes COLUMBUS in Neo-Latin Epic Poetry (16th-18th Centuries) 420
17. The American Indians and the Ancients of Europe: The Idea of Comparison and the Construction of Historical Time in the 18th Century 658
18. 692-694 692