Polifemo en Yucatán. Variaciones sobre un episodio de la Eneida en la épica cortesiana del Quinientos

Among the literary models that, in  fteenth-century epics on the conquest of Mexico, help to set into epic form the historical matter taken from the chronicles, Virgil’s Aeneid plays a fundamental role. This paper is aimed at showing how the identi cation between Jerónimo de Aguilar and the Virgilian Achaemenides, found for the  rst time in Luis Zapata’s Carlo famoso, reappears in Francisco de Terrazas, Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega and Antonio de Saavedra Guzmán, as well as at proposing some considerations on possible links between their works.