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Magical Tome
- First published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Pages
- 228 pages
- ISBN
- 0691069336
The edges of the earth in ancient thought
The outer archives are busy
About this book
The "edges of the earth" became the basis of a literary tradition, surveyed here, revealing that the Greeks, and to a somewhat lesser extent the Romans, saw geography not as a branch of physical science but as an important literary genre.
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