Aeneas in Mexico. Epic recreations of the arrival of Hernán Cortés

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

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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Published
2019-06-26
How to Cite
Río Torres-Murciano A. (2019). Aeneas in Mexico. Epic recreations of the arrival of Hernán Cortés. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos, 39(1), 69-92. https://doi.org/10.5209/cfcl.64893
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