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Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS): ‘Aztec Latinists: Classical learning and native legacies in post-conquest Mexico’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United KingdomProf. Andrew Laird (John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities, Brown University, USA) Soon after the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric and Aristotelian philosophy to youths from the native Nahua or Aztec nobility. In his talk, Andrew Laird will explain the nature and purpose of that […]