Viajes de verdad, viajes de mentira: literatura de viajes del período helenístico

Abstract

This work analyzes the authors – and their approach facing the unknown - and draws the guidelines which represent the axis of the development of the stories, both real or fabulous, about distant worlds still to explore in the Hellenistic period.

Keywords

• Pytheas of Massalia
• Nearchos
• Arrian
• Megasthenes
• Hellenistic Literature
• Travel Literature