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Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America

Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America

Lupher, David Andrew

Paperback

Series: History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portugue

Ancient RomeGeneral Latin American HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0472031783
ISBN13: 9780472031788
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: Apr 1 2006
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Romans in a New World shows how the ancient Romans haunted the Spanish conquest of the New World, more often than not as passionately rejected models. While the conquistadors themselves and their publicists challenged the reputations of the Romans for incomparable military genius and daring, Spanish critics of the conquest launched a concerted assault upon two other prominent uses of ancient Rome as a model: as an exemplar of imperialistic motives and behavior fit for Christians to follow, and as a yardstick against which to measure the cultural level of the natives of the New World.

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