Aeneas in Mexico. Epic recreations of the arrival of Hernán Cortés
Abstract
This paper is aimed at studying how Hernán Cortés’ arrival to Cozumel in February 1519 was celebrated in sixteenth-century epic poems on the conquest of Mexico, which oscillate between the Lucanean realism adopted by Alonso de Ercilla’s Araucana and the fictionalization of the account of the chronicles following the model of the Aeneid.
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