The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought

Introduction: Geography as a Literary Tradition --The Boundaries of Earth --Boundaries and the Boundless --Ocean and Cosmic Disorder --Roads around the World --Herodotus and the Changing World Picture --Aristotle and After --Ethiopian and Hyperborean --The Blameless Ethiopians --The Fortunate Hyperboreans --Arimaspians and Scythians --The Kunokephaloi --Wonders of the East --Before Alexander --Marvel-Collectors and Critics --The Late Romance Tradition --Ultima Thule and Beyond --Antipodal Ambiti...