"Spanning half a millennium, Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America offers an impressive demonstration of the vibrancy of the classical tradition in a wide range of social domains and practices: education, the book trade, public ceremonies, the visual arts, popular culture and, above all, the process of nation-building. The contributors vividly reveal the impact of Greek and Roman culture on creole and indigenous authors and actors in the Americas, from the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Chimalpahin to José Martí and Roberto Bolaño. While there have been several influential studies of the ways in which knowledge of classical antiquity informed early European impressions of the New World, the focus of this volume is on the importance of the afterlife of Greece, Rome and Byzantium within Latin America itself."—David A. Lupher, University of Puget Sound"The twelve chapters contained in the book are wide in scope, not only spatially and thematically, but also chronologically, reaching as far as works of the late twentieth century. They also display a remarkable involvement of researchers from different disciplines (coming not just from the field of classical studies), which produces an appealing crossover of approaches, which will certainly benefit readers."—International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2021) 28(2):255-257