Altera Roma : Art and Empire from Mérida to México / edited by John M.D. Pohl and Claire L. Lyons.
"Altera Roma explores the confrontation of two cultures--European and Amerindian--and two empires--Spanish and Aztec. In an age of exploration and conquest, Spanish soldiers, missionaries, and merchants brought an array of cultural preconceptions. Their encounter with Aztec civilization coincid...
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Los Angeles :
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Monograph (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA) ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / John M.D. Pohl and Claire L. Lyons
- Rome, Tenochtitlan, and Beyond : Comparing Empires across Space and Time / Walter Scheidel
- The Visualization of Imperial Dominance : Hobbe's Leviathan, the Mexica Templo Mayor and the Materialization of Authority / Eulogio Guzman
- Monuments of Empire in Roman Spain and Beyond : Augusta Emerita (Merida), the "Spanish Rome" / Jonathan Edmonson
- Aztec Art in Provincial Places : Water Concerns, Monumental Sculptures, and Imperial Expansion / Emily Umberger
- Dramatic Performance and the Theater of the State : The Cults of the Divus Triumphator, Parthenope, and Quetzalcoatl / John M.D. Pohl
- Aztec and Roman Gods in Sixteenth-Century Mexico : Strategic Uses of Classical Learning in Sahagun's Historia General / Andrew Laird
- The Mexica Pantheon in Light of Graeco-Roman Polytheism : Uses, Abuses and Proposals / Guilhem Olivier Durand
- Towards a New World's Laocoön : Thoughts on Seeing Aztec Sculpture Through Spanish Eyes / Thomas B.F. Cummins
- Death in the Hands of Strangers : Aztec Human Sacrifice in the Western Imagination / Cecelia F. Klein
- Alia Herculanea : Pre-Hispanic Sites and Antiquities in Late Bourbon New Spain / Leonardo López Luján.