European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus An informative abstract in English Briefe sowie Reden zum An informative abstract in English is provided for each entry Frontmatter PRÆFATIO PROSOPOGRAPHI¿ ET TOPOGRAPHIA ACTORVM CHALCEDONENSIVM ET ENCYCLIORVM I IMPERATOR DIGNITATES SENATVS OFFICIALES II EPISCOPI III CLERICI QVI VICES AGVNT EPISCOPORVM VEL PRO EPISCOPIS SVBSCRIBVNT IIII CLERICI ET MONACHI V CIVITATES EPISCOPALES VI PROVINCIAE VII DIOCESES INDICES CORRIGENDUM 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 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