Aztec Latin - Laird, Andrew (John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics
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Soon after the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin to native youths in Mexico. This initiative was intended to train indigenous students for positions of leadership, but it led some of them to produce significant writings of their own in Latin, and to translate a wide range of literature, including Aesop's fables, into their native language. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.

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Soon after the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin to native youths in Mexico. This initiative was intended to train indigenous students for positions of leadership, but it led some of them to produce significant writings of their own in Latin, and to translate a wide range of literature, including Aesop's fables, into their native language. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.
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Andrew Laird is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities at Brown University. His previous publications include Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power; The Epic of America; and, as editor with Carlo Caruso, Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600.