Empire's companion : Virgilian epics from colonial Iberoamerica /
"A study of how Latin poetry shaped colonial aspirations in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century South and Central America. Accompanying Iberian colonizers to the Americas, Virgil's Aeneid inspired generations of colonial elites to write their own epic poems in Latin-priming imaginations for S...
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| Language: | English Latin |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Pietas on the Shores of Brazil
- 2. Epic from the Edge of the Map
- 3. Parading the Mexica Emperors
- 4. America's Antiquities.