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Author MacCormack, Sabine

Title On the wings of time : Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru / Sabine MacCormack
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 320 pages) : illustrations
Contents Universals and particulars : themes and persons -- Writing and the pursuit of origins -- Conquest, civil war, and political life -- The emergence of patria : cities and the law -- Works of nature and works of free will -- "The discourse of my life" : what language can do -- The Incas, Rome, and Peru -- Epilogue: Ancient texts : prophecies and predictions, causes and judgments
Summary Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in Spanish South America, but was the impact a one-way street? Although the Spanish destruction of the Incan empire changed the Andes forever, the civil society that did emerge was not the result of Andeans and Creoles passively absorbing the wisdom of ancient Rome. Rather, Sabine MacCormack proposes that civil society was born of the intellectual endeavors that commenced with the invasion itself, as the invaders sought to understand an array of cultures. Looking at the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people who wrote about the Andean region that became Peru, MacCormack reveals how the lens of Rome had a profound influence on Spanish understanding of the Incan empire.--Publisher description
Analysis Aeneid
Alcalde
Alfonso X of Castile
Americas
Amun
Ancient Rome
Andean civilizations
Andes
Arrival and Departure
Aspromonte
Atahualpa
Ataulf
Atoll
Bartolomé de las Casas
Caesar and Pompey
Caprera
Cesarea
Chronology
Circumnavigation
Classical antiquity
Classical tradition
Clime
Coat of arms
Conquistador
Coral reef
Cusco
Decree
Deity
Diego de Almagro
Djed
Edict
Edmundo O'Gorman
Expedition of the Thousand
Francisco Pizarro
Francisco de Vitoria
Friar
From Time Immemorial
Frontier
Future
Giuseppe Mazzini
Gonzalo Pizarro
Grammar
Greeks
Hernando Pizarro
Hypogeum
Imperialism
Inca Empire
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Indo-Pacific
Interdependence
Lactantius
Late Antiquity
Lictor
Livy
Machiavellianism
Mark Antony
Mendes
Messina
Multitude
Naples
Narrative
New Laws
Noun
Oidor
Orosius
Pachacuti
Pax Romana
Periodization
Persis
Petrarch
Pharsalia
Phocion
Phrase
Plus ultra (motto)
Polity
Proconsul
Quintilian
Quipu
Reign
Renaissance humanism
Sailing ship
Sicily
South America
Southern Italy
Spaniards
Strait of Gibraltar
Sucre
Suetonius
Sulla
Tacitus
Titu Cusi
Toco
Under arms
Vassal
Virgil
Vitruvius
War
Warfare
Writing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-310) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Incas -- Historiography
Incas -- First contact with other peoples
Incas in literature -- History and criticism
Indian literature -- Andes Region -- History and criticism
Spanish literature -- Andes Region -- History and criticism
Incas -- First contact with other peoples
Incas -- Historiography
Incas in literature
Indian literature
Spanish literature
Spanjaarden.
Cultuurcontact.
SUBJECT Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100205
Subject Andes Region
Peru
Latijns-Amerika.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400832675
1400832675