Andrew Laird
Biographic Data
| ID | 682737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Laird |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Laird |
| SIGNATURE | LAIRD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4981-653X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
El buen estado de la república de Utopía, Tomás Moro
The Earliest Known Text in Latin by a Nahuatl Speaker
In the 1500s, don Pedro de Montezuma, son of Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin (Montezuma II), petitioned for the return of land and estates in Tula, fifty miles away from Mexico City. A report that was compiled in Latin in 1541, now generally known as "Verba sociorum domini Petri Tlacauepantzi," remains an important source for his contested claim. This article presents a transcription and the first translation of the document into English. After (1) a syno…
Aztec Latin
Dead Letters and Buried Meaning
This chapter examines recurrent epitaphic formulae in the Aeneid, including those applied to Dido, Misenus, Caieta, and Cretheus, which have a metatextual force, amplifying associations between Virgil’s oeuvre and his tomb. In particular, the succession of epitaphs for Palinurus and the account of his demise resonate respectively with Virgil’s attested ‘auto-epitaph’ and with the supposed circumstances of the poet’s death, narrated in the Suetoni…
Colonial grammatology
This paper challenges Walter Mignolo’s influential view that the Renaissance grammarian Nebrija’s theory of writing had a role in justifying Spanish imperialism and that it contributed to the diminution or elimination of native language and memory in the Americas. It will be shown that Isidore of Seville’s comparatively versatile conception of writing, which accommodated pictograms, was far more pervasive in Spain and the New World, fostering par…
Contents/Preface
Introduction
Universal History and New Spain's Indian Past
Idea of a New General History of North America
Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, a nobleman born in the Duchy of Milan in 1698 (and thus a Spanish subject), spent seven years in New Spain during 1736–1743, building a formidable and still unparalleled collection of indigenous Mexican manuscripts and pictorial codices. But Boturini had failed to secure authorization for his activities: his “museum” was confiscated and later dispersed, and he was detained and then deported to Spain. There he wrote from…
Recognizing Virgil
credimus? an qui amant, ipsi sibi somnia fingunt? Virgil, Eclogue 8.108 Lascia parlare a me, ch’ i'ho concetto ciò che tu vuoi Virgil's words to Dante, Inferno Canto 26.73–4 The idea of recognition can connote respect as well as identification based on previous encounters. When it comes to recognizing Virgil, deference to the poet is very evident in the practices and behaviour of his early readers, along with forms of personal recognition. The ti…
Nahuas and Caesars
The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin
This chapter contains sections titled: I II III IV Further Reading
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancie…
Fiction, Philosophy, and Logical Closure
The first part of this chapter puts narrative in its place before considering how and why speculation about fiction has been so readily dismissed or marginalized by current thinking. The subsequent sections seek to justify a conception of the essential relationship between fiction and philosophy from three different perspectives: it introduces and briefly examines the idea of ‘logical closure’, before going on to consider more general aspects of …
The Cambridge Companion to Horace
Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He also became a key literary figure in the regime of the Emperor Augustus. In this 2007 volume a superb international cast of contributors present a stimulating and accessible assessment of the poet, …
Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry
Figures of Allegory from Homer to Latin Epic
This chapter eschews an aprioristic approach to the identification and analysis of allegory in ancient texts, instead seeking guidance from the texts themselves. Epic treatment of reflexive conventions, such as the messenger speech, suggest that epic is aware of itself as allegory — that is, as a medium whose message cannot be straightforwardly read off. Furthermore, it expects the reader to construct (not ‘find’) its meaning, so that allegorical…
Fiction as a Discourse of Philosophy in Lucian’s Verae Historiae
Roman Epic Theatre? Reception, performance, and the poet in Virgil's Aeneid
Past responses to ancient literature and the reading practices of previous centuries are of central relevance to the contemporary exegesis of Greek and Roman authors. Professional classicists have at last come to recognise this. However, accounts of reception still tend to engage in a traditional form of Nachleben , as they unselfconsciously describe the extent of classical influences on later literary production. This process of influence is not…
Juan Luis De La Cerda and the Predicament of Commentary
A Companion to the Prologue of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Nowadays we can judge books by their covers. In antiquity, when a 'book' was a papyrus roll, its first few words advertised the nature of the text to follow. The Prologue of Apuleius' innovative novel, the Metamorphoses (or Golden Ass), is an extraordinary example of a programmatic opening, which has captivated readers and scholars from the Renaissance to the present day. This short text raises a variety of important questions about liberty, and …
Ringing the changes on Gyges
Glaucon's story about the ring of invisibility in Republic 359d-60b is examined in order to assess the wider role of fictional fabrication in Plato's philosophical argument. The first part of the article (I) looks at the close connections this tale has to the account of Gyges in Herodotus (1.8-12). It is argued that Plato exhibits a specific dependence on Herodotus, which suggests Glaucon's story might be an original invention: the assumption tha…
Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power
Can a speaker's words ever be faithfully reported? History, philosophy, ethnography, political theory, linguistics, and literary criticism all involve debates about discourse and representation. By drawing from Plato's theory of discourse, the lively analysis of speech presentation in this book provides a coherent and original contribution to these debates, and highlights the problems involved when speech becomes both the object and the medium of…
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectiv…
Nahuas and Caesars
Universal History and New Spain's Indian Past
The Earliest Known Text in Latin by a Nahuatl Speaker
In the 1500s, don Pedro de Montezuma, son of Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin (Montezuma II), petitioned for the return of land and estates in Tula, fifty miles away from Mexico City. A report that was compiled in Latin in 1541, now generally known as "Verba sociorum domini Petri Tlacauepantzi," remains an important source for his contested claim. This article presents a transcription and the first translation of the document into English. After (1) a syno…
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectiv…
Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power
Can a speaker's words ever be faithfully reported? History, philosophy, ethnography, political theory, linguistics, and literary criticism all involve debates about discourse and representation. By drawing from Plato's theory of discourse, the lively analysis of speech presentation in this book provides a coherent and original contribution to these debates, and highlights the problems involved when speech becomes both the object and the medium of…
A Companion to the Prologue of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Nowadays we can judge books by their covers. In antiquity, when a 'book' was a papyrus roll, its first few words advertised the nature of the text to follow. The Prologue of Apuleius' innovative novel, the Metamorphoses (or Golden Ass), is an extraordinary example of a programmatic opening, which has captivated readers and scholars from the Renaissance to the present day. This short text raises a variety of important questions about liberty, and …
Ringing the changes on Gyges
Glaucon's story about the ring of invisibility in Republic 359d-60b is examined in order to assess the wider role of fictional fabrication in Plato's philosophical argument. The first part of the article (I) looks at the close connections this tale has to the account of Gyges in Herodotus (1.8-12). It is argued that Plato exhibits a specific dependence on Herodotus, which suggests Glaucon's story might be an original invention: the assumption tha…
Juan Luis De La Cerda and the Predicament of Commentary
Figures of Allegory from Homer to Latin Epic
This chapter eschews an aprioristic approach to the identification and analysis of allegory in ancient texts, instead seeking guidance from the texts themselves. Epic treatment of reflexive conventions, such as the messenger speech, suggest that epic is aware of itself as allegory — that is, as a medium whose message cannot be straightforwardly read off. Furthermore, it expects the reader to construct (not ‘find’) its meaning, so that allegorical…
Fiction as a Discourse of Philosophy in Lucian’s Verae Historiae
Roman Epic Theatre? Reception, performance, and the poet in Virgil's Aeneid
Past responses to ancient literature and the reading practices of previous centuries are of central relevance to the contemporary exegesis of Greek and Roman authors. Professional classicists have at last come to recognise this. However, accounts of reception still tend to engage in a traditional form of Nachleben , as they unselfconsciously describe the extent of classical influences on later literary production. This process of influence is not…
Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry
Fiction, Philosophy, and Logical Closure
The first part of this chapter puts narrative in its place before considering how and why speculation about fiction has been so readily dismissed or marginalized by current thinking. The subsequent sections seek to justify a conception of the essential relationship between fiction and philosophy from three different perspectives: it introduces and briefly examines the idea of ‘logical closure’, before going on to consider more general aspects of …
The Cambridge Companion to Horace
Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He also became a key literary figure in the regime of the Emperor Augustus. In this 2007 volume a superb international cast of contributors present a stimulating and accessible assessment of the poet, …
The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin
This chapter contains sections titled: I II III IV Further Reading
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancie…
Nahuas and Caesars
Recognizing Virgil
credimus? an qui amant, ipsi sibi somnia fingunt? Virgil, Eclogue 8.108 Lascia parlare a me, ch’ i'ho concetto ciò che tu vuoi Virgil's words to Dante, Inferno Canto 26.73–4 The idea of recognition can connote respect as well as identification based on previous encounters. When it comes to recognizing Virgil, deference to the poet is very evident in the practices and behaviour of his early readers, along with forms of personal recognition. The ti…
Dead Letters and Buried Meaning
This chapter examines recurrent epitaphic formulae in the Aeneid, including those applied to Dido, Misenus, Caieta, and Cretheus, which have a metatextual force, amplifying associations between Virgil’s oeuvre and his tomb. In particular, the succession of epitaphs for Palinurus and the account of his demise resonate respectively with Virgil’s attested ‘auto-epitaph’ and with the supposed circumstances of the poet’s death, narrated in the Suetoni…
Colonial grammatology
This paper challenges Walter Mignolo’s influential view that the Renaissance grammarian Nebrija’s theory of writing had a role in justifying Spanish imperialism and that it contributed to the diminution or elimination of native language and memory in the Americas. It will be shown that Isidore of Seville’s comparatively versatile conception of writing, which accommodated pictograms, was far more pervasive in Spain and the New World, fostering par…
Contents/Preface
Introduction
Universal History and New Spain's Indian Past
Idea of a New General History of North America
Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, a nobleman born in the Duchy of Milan in 1698 (and thus a Spanish subject), spent seven years in New Spain during 1736–1743, building a formidable and still unparalleled collection of indigenous Mexican manuscripts and pictorial codices. But Boturini had failed to secure authorization for his activities: his “museum” was confiscated and later dispersed, and he was detained and then deported to Spain. There he wrote from…
Aztec Latin
El buen estado de la república de Utopía, Tomás Moro
The Earliest Known Text in Latin by a Nahuatl Speaker
In the 1500s, don Pedro de Montezuma, son of Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin (Montezuma II), petitioned for the return of land and estates in Tula, fifty miles away from Mexico City. A report that was compiled in Latin in 1541, now generally known as "Verba sociorum domini Petri Tlacauepantzi," remains an important source for his contested claim. This article presents a transcription and the first translation of the document into English. After (1) a syno…
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