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ByJames S. Romm

The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought

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“A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.” -Franz Kafka

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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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