Classics In South America, The: Five Case Studies (Bloomsbury Studies In Classical Reception)

Introduction: plus ultra. Prospective classicisms in Latin America ; The class of the classics ; Greek and Latin America? A description of this project ; Note on the Translations -- Chapter 1. Avatars. Preliminaries ; Acosta, the Elder ; The Antarctic Ovid ; The Austral Muse ; Conclusions: culling, cultivation, and culture -- Chapter 2: Chorographers. Preliminaries ; The borders of the new world: Pedro Nolasco Mere's maps of the walls of Lima ; The language of the new world: Rodrígo de Valdés's Fundación y Grandeza ; Conclusions -- Chapter 3. Personae. Preliminaries ; Hypermetric history: José Joaquín de Olmedo's Victoria de Junín ; An Ides of March in September: The 1828 conspiracy against Bolívar ; Conclusions: history, impersonation, prosopopoeia -- Chapter 4. Mythographers. Preliminaries ; The other asterion ; The creation of a Carioca Orpheus ; Orpheus in color ; Confirmations, rebuttals, and antitheses ; Conclusions -- Chapter 5. (Coda): Pedagogues. Preliminaries ; Monuments to the origin ; Back to Eryce.

• | Author: Germán Campos Muñoz
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Aug 24, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 270 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1350195049
• | ISBN-13: 9781350195042