Wolfgang Haase & Reinhold Meyer 
European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition [PDF ebook] 

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