This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Series Editor's Preface
• 1 Introduction Richard J. A. Talbert; Kurt A. Raaflaub
• 2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India Christopher Minkowski
• 3 Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India Kim Plofker
• 4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu
• 5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China John B. Henderson
• 6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China's Early Empires Michael Loewe
• 7 The Mississippian Peoples' Worldview Kathleen DuVal
• 8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination Barbara E. Mundy
• 9 Inca Worldview Catherine Julien
• 10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings Piotr Michalowski
• 11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt Gerald Moers
• 12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees James M. Scott
• 13 'I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea': Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World Susan Guettel Cole
• 14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure James Romm
• 15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia Daniela Dueck
• 16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? Richard J. A. Talbert
• 17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context Adam J. Silverstein
• 18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels Emilie Savage-Smith
• 19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns Natalia Lozovsky
• 20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500–1750 David Buisseret