Polyphemus in Yucatan. Variations on an episode of the Aeneid in fifteenth-century Cortesian epic

  • Antón Río Torres-Murciano Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Keywords: Virgil, Luis Zapata, Francisco de Terrazas, Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, Antonio de Saavedra Guzmán

Abstract

Among the literary models that, in fifteenth-century epics on the conquest of Mexico, help to set into epic form the historical matter taken from the chronicles, Virgil’s Aeneid plays a fundamental role. This paper is aimed at showing how the identification between Jerónimo de Aguilar and the Virgilian Achaemenides, found for the first time in Luis Zapata’s Carlo famoso, reappears in Francisco de Terrazas, Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega and Antonio de Saavedra Guzmán, as well as at proposing some considerations on possible links between their works.

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Published
2016-05-03
How to Cite
Río Torres-Murciano A. (2016). Polyphemus in Yucatan. Variations on an episode of the Aeneid in fifteenth-century Cortesian epic. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos, 36(1), 85-106. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CFCL.2016.v36.n1.52545
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