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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

Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America

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    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 28/12/2018
    ISBN13: 9781119559337, 978-1119559337
    ISBN10: 1119559332

    Number of Pages: 240

    Non Fiction , History

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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

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