Antiquities And Classical Traditions In Latin America

Author : Andrew Laird,Nicola Miller
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1119559332

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Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America by Andrew Laird,Nicola Miller Pdf

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

Author : Germán Campos Muñoz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350170254

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The Classics in South America by Germán Campos Muñoz Pdf

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 : Wolfgang Haase,Reinhold Meyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110870244

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European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition by Wolfgang Haase,Reinhold Meyer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004468658

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Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas by Anonim Pdf

Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas opens a window onto classical receptions across the Hispanophone, Lusophone, Francophone and Anglophone Americas during the early modern period, examining classical reception as a phenomenon in transhemispheric perspective for the first

Author : Germán Campos Muñoz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350170278

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The Classics in South America by Germán Campos Muñoz Pdf

This volume examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics have played a crucial, though often overlooked, role in the self-definition in the New World. Chronicling and theorizing this history through a detailed analysis of five key moments, chosen from the early and late colonial period, the emancipatory era, and the 20th and 21st centuries, it also examines an eclectic selection of both literary and cinematographic works and artefacts such as maps, letters, scientific treatises, songs, monuments, political speeches, and even the drafts of proposals for curricular changes across Latin America. The heterogeneous cases analysed in this book reveal cultural anxieties that recur through different periods, fundamentally related to the 'newness' of the continent and the formation of identities imagined as both Western and non-Western – a genealogy of apprehensions that South American intellectuals and political figures have typically experienced when thinking of their own role in world history. In tracing this genealogy, The Classics in South America innovatively reformulates our understanding of well-known episodes in the cultural history of the region, while providing a theoretical and historical resource for further studies of the importance of the Classical tradition across Latin America.

Author : Moira Fradinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192651594

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Antígonas by Moira Fradinger Pdf

Antígonas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. This interdisciplinary research engages comparative literature, Latin American studies, classical reception, history, feminist theory, political philosophy, and theatre history. Moira Fradinger tracks the ways in which, since the early nineteenth century, fragments of Antigone's myth and tragedy have been persistently cannibalized and ruminated throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean, quilted to local dramatic forms, revealing an archive of political thought about Latin America's heterogeneous neo-colonial histories. Antígona is consistently characterized as a national mother and, as the twentieth century advances, multiplied on stage, forming female collectives, foregrounding the urgency of systemic change or staging gender politics. Through meticulous examination of classical culture in necolonial contexts, Fradinger explores ways of reading Creole texts from the geopolitical South that disrupt the colonial reading protocols that deracinate texts or lock them into locality. By historicizing Antígona plays and interpreting them with a purpose to address specific colonial legacies, the book reveals how Antígona has ceased being Greek and instead tells stories of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin America. Antígonas rethinks the paradigms through which we understand the presence of ancient cultural materials in former colonial territories, while illuminating an understudied continent in Anglophone reception studies.

Author : Rosa Andújar,Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350125629

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Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage by Rosa Andújar,Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos Pdf

The first comprehensive treatment in English of the rich and varied afterlife of classical drama across Latin America, this volume explores the myriad ways in which ancient Greek and Roman texts have been adapted, invoked and re-worked in notable modern theatrical works across North and South America and the Caribbean, while also paying particular attention to the national and local context of each play. A comprehensive introduction provides a critical overview of the varying issues and complexities that arise when studying the afterlife of the European classics in the theatrical stages across this diverse and vast region. Fourteen chapters, divided into three general geographical sub-regions (Southern Cone, Brazil and the Caribbean and North America) present a strong connection to an ancient dramatic source text as well as comment upon important socio-political crises in the modern history of Latin America. The diversity and expertise of the voices in this volume translate into a multi-ranging approach to the topic that encompasses a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives from classics, Latin American studies and theatre and performance studies.

Author : Sofia Greaves,Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789257823

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Rome and the Colonial City by Sofia Greaves,Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Pdf

According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.

Author : Katherine Blouin,Ben Akrigg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040022368

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The Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory by Katherine Blouin,Ben Akrigg Pdf

This handbook explores the ways in which histories of colonialism and postcolonial thought and theory cast light on our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world and the discipline of Classics, utilizing a wide body of case studies and providing avenues for future research and discussion. It brings together chapters by a wide, international, and intersectional range of scholars coming from a variety of backgrounds and sub-disciplinary perspectives, and from across the chronological and geographical scope of Classics. Chapters cover the state of current research into ancient Mediterranean and South, Central, and West Asian histories. They provide case studies to illustrate both how postcolonial thought has already illuminated our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world and beyond, as well as its potential for the future. Chapters also provide opportunities for reflection on the current state of the discipline. An introduction by the volume editors offers a survey of the development of postcolonial theory, its relationship to other bodies of theory, and its connections to Classics. Toward the end of the book, three scholars with different career and disciplinary perspectives provide short reflections on the themes of the volume and the directions of future research. The Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory offers an impressive collection of current research and thought on the subject for students and scholars in classical studies understood in its larger sense as well as in related disciplines such as Archaeology, Ancient History, Imperial History and the History of Colonialism, Reception Studies, and Museum Studies. For anyone interested in classical antiquity, it provides an engaging introduction to a potentially bewildering, but ultimately vital and enriching, body of thought and theory.

Author : Jennifer T. Roberts
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691243856

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Out of One, Many by Jennifer T. Roberts Pdf

A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but also the enormous diversity in their ideas and beliefs. Examining the huge importance to the Greeks of religion, mythology, the Homeric epics, tragic and comic drama, philosophy, and the city-state, the book offers shifting perspectives on an extraordinary and astonishingly creative people. Century after century, in one medium after another, the Greeks addressed big questions, many of which are still very much with us, from whether gods exist and what happens after we die to what political system is best and how we can know what is real. Yet for all their virtues, Greek men set themselves apart from women and foreigners and profited from the unpaid labor of enslaved workers, and the book also looks at the mixed legacy of the ancient Greeks today. The result is a rich, wide-ranging, and compelling history of a fascinating and profoundly influential culture in all its complexity—and the myriad ways, good and bad, it continues to shape us today.

Author : Roy Gibson,Christopher Whitton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108369183

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The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature by Roy Gibson,Christopher Whitton Pdf

The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin literature within its global context from late antiquity to Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history, philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought, Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory).

Author : Nicola Miller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691185835

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Republics of Knowledge by Nicola Miller Pdf

An enlightening account of the entwined histories of knowledge and nationhood in Latin America—and beyond The rise of nation-states is a hallmark of the modern age, yet we are still untangling how the phenomenon unfolded across the globe. Here, Nicola Miller offers new insights into the process of nation-making through an account of nineteenth-century Latin America, where, she argues, the identity of nascent republics was molded through previously underappreciated means: the creation and sharing of knowledge. Drawing evidence from Argentina, Chile, and Peru, Republics of Knowledge traces the histories of these countries from the early 1800s, as they gained independence, to their centennial celebrations in the twentieth century. Miller identifies how public exchange of ideas affected policymaking, the emergence of a collective identity, and more. She finds that instead of defining themselves through language or culture, these new nations united citizens under the promise of widespread access to modern information. Miller challenges the narrative that modernization was a strictly North Atlantic affair, demonstrating that knowledge traveled both ways between Latin America and Europe. And she looks at how certain forms of knowledge came to be seen as more legitimate and valuable than others, both locally and globally. Miller ultimately suggests that all modern nations can be viewed as communities of shared knowledge, a perspective with the power to reshape our conception of the very basis of nationhood. With its transnational framework and cross-disciplinary approach, Republics of Knowledge opens new avenues for understanding the histories of modern nations—and the foundations of modernity—the world over.

Author : Andrew Laird
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780197586372

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Aztec Latin by Andrew Laird Pdf

In 1536, only fifteen years after the fall of the Aztec empire, Franciscan missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric, and Aristotelian philosophy to native youths in central Mexico. The remarkable linguistic and cultural exchanges that would result from that initiative are the subject of this book. Aztec Latin highlights the importance of Renaissance humanist education for early colonial indigenous history, showing how practices central to humanism ? the cultivation of eloquence, the training of leaders, scholarly translation, and antiquarian research ? were transformed in New Spain to serve Indian elites as well as the Spanish authorities and religious orders. While Franciscan friars, inspired by Erasmus' ideal of a common tongue, applied principles of Latin grammar to Amerindian languages, native scholars translated the Gospels, a range of devotional literature, and even Aesop's fables into the Mexican language of Nahuatl. They also produced significant new writings in Latin and Nahuatl, adorning accounts of their ancestral past with parallels from Greek and Roman history and importing themes from classical and Christian sources to interpret pre-Hispanic customs and beliefs. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.

Author : Steven M. Oberhelman,Giancarlo Abbamonte,Patrick Baker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789004463417

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Habent sua fata libelli by Steven M. Oberhelman,Giancarlo Abbamonte,Patrick Baker Pdf

Habent sua fata libelli honors the work of Craig Kallendorf, offering studies in his primary fields of expertise: the history of the book and reading, the classical tradition and reception studies, Renaissance humanism, and Virgilian scholarship.

Author : Edmund Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350017269

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Classics in Extremis by Edmund Richardson Pdf

Classics in Extremis reimagines classical reception. Its contributors explore some of the most remarkable, hard-fought and unsettling claims ever made on the ancient world: from the coal-mines of England to the paradoxes of Borges, from Victorian sexuality to the trenches of the First World War, from American public-school classrooms to contemporary right-wing politics. How does the reception of the ancient world change under impossible strain? Its protagonists are 'marginal' figures who resisted that definition in the strongest terms. Contributors argue for a decentered model of classical reception: where the 'marginal' shapes the 'central' as much as vice versa – and where the most unlikely appropriations of antiquity often have the greatest impact. What kind of distortions does the model of 'centre' and 'margins' produce? How can 'marginal' receptions be recovered most effectively? Bringing together some of the leading scholars in the field, Classics in Extremis moves beyond individual case studies to develop fresh methodologies and perspectives on the study of classical reception.