Table of Contents

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