Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America
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Ancient Greece
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antiquarian learning
Aristotle
art history
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Caribbean
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Cicero
classical legacies
colonial studies
cultural anthropology
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European antiquity
Greco-Roman
Latin America
Mesoamerica
politics
Roman imperialism
Romantic Hellenism
Rome
South America
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- ISBN 9781119559337
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 150 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2018
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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
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.
