Andrew Laird, Nicola Miller

Broschiertes Buch

Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America

Beschreibung

This collection is the first concerted attempt to explore the significance of classical legacies for Latin American history - from the uses of antiquarian learning in colonial institutions to the currents of Romantic Hellenism which inspired liberators and nation-builders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

_ Discusses how the model of Roman imperialism, challenges to Aristotle's theories of geography and natural slavery, and Cicero's notion of the patria have had a pervasive influence on thought and politics throughout the Latin American region
_ Brings together essays by specialists in art history, cultural anthropology and literary studies, as well as Americanists and scholars of the classical tradition
_ Shows that appropriations of the Greco-Roman past are a recurrent catalyst for change in the Americas
_ Calls attention to ideas and developments which have been overlooked in standard narratives of intellectual history

Autor

Andrew Laird is John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University. Nicola Miller is Professor of Latin American History at University College London.

Produktdetails

• Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A119559330
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781119559337
• ISBN-10: 1119559332
• Artikelnr.: 54470592

Rezensionen

'Spanning half a millennium, Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America offers an impressive demonstration of the vibrancy of the classical tradition in a wide range of social domains and practices: education, the book trade, public ceremonies, the visual arts, popular culture and, above all, the process of nation-building. The contributors vividly reveal the impact of Greek and Roman culture on creole and indigenous authors and actors in the Americas, from the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Chimalpahin to José Martí and Roberto Bolaño. While there have been several influential studies of the ways in which knowledge of classical antiquity informed early European impressions of the New World, the focus of this volume is on the importance of the afterlife of Greece, Rome and Byzantium within Latin America itself.'
David A. Lupher, University of Puget Sound