Empire's Companion - Erika Valdivieso

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 Spanish and Portuguese rule in the Americas. In Empire’s Companion, Erika Valdivieso recovers this lost strain of poetry for classicists and early Americanists alike. Each chapter introduces readers to a... Zobrazit více