European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus ANDRZEJ On the Evolution 53 ANDRZEJ On the Evolution of Would and Other Modals in the English Spoken in East Los Angeles WALD An informative abstract in English is provided for each entry 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' 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