Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas

Contents
Acknowledgments
Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction Synecdoche in Reverse:America’s Transhemispheric Classics
Chapter 1 Utopia Writes Back: José Manuel Peramás on the Limits of Republicanism
Chapter 2 Degenerating the Classical Canon in Brazil: Bernardo Guimarães’s Ovidian A Origem do Mênstruo [‘The Origin of Menstruation’] (1875)
Chapter 3 Heaven and Hell: Classical Rhetoric and Courtly Wit in Early Modern Brazil – The Case of Gregório de Matos
Chapter 4 La Primera Parte del Parnaso Antártico [‘The First Part of the Antarctic Parnassus’]: Print and the Politics of Translation in Early Peruvian Poetry
Chapter 5 Justaque cupidine lucri ardentes [‘Burning with a Just Desire for Gain’]: A Barbadian Poet Celebrates the Peace of Utrecht
Chapter 6 Lucianic Dialogues in Colonial Santo Domingo: The Historical Miscellany of Luis Joseph Peguero
Chapter 7 Classical Learning and Indigenous Legacies in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Chapter 8 Romans in Spain and Britain as Models and Anti-Models for New World Encounters
Chapter 9 A New England Underworld: The Necropolitics and Necropoetics of Katabasis in the Anarchiad (1786–87) and Mock Epics of the Early U.S. Republic
Chapter 10 “Familiar Commerce”: The Classical Origins of John Winthrop’s “Modell” of American Affiliation
Chapter 11 Phillis Wheatley’s Niobean Poetics
Chapter 12 William Apess and the Athens of America
Chapter 13 Beavers as the Bees of New France: The Beaver’s ‘Allegorical Turn’ in Father François Du Creux’s Historia Canadensis
Chapter 14 The Fall of Troy in Old Huronia: The Letters of Paul Ragueneau on the Destruction of Wendake, 1649–1651
Index