1. A. Etymological and conceptual history
The term A. as a name for the continent has got a long and ramified history. The term A. (see 3 below) could only be used by the Romans as a description of the continent of A., when the ‘area’ described by the Latin term A. had come to coincide at least in parts with that described by the Greek term Λιβύη (Libýē) -- but, at the earliest, this happened in the 2nd ha…