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