Tenochtitlan in Popular Culture
- Motezuma, an opera composed by Antonio Vivaldi, is set in Mexico City/Tenochtitlán.
- "Cortez the Killer," a song by Neil Young, talks about the arrival of the Cortez's troops and the massacre that ensues.
- Woman of a Thousand Secrets, a novel by Barbara Wood, tells the story of the founding of Tenochtitlán through the eyes of someone who was there.
- Huesos de Lagartija, a novel by Federico Navarrete, tells the story of a young Aztec who lived through the European invasion of Mexico. The novel has many details about daily life in Tenochtitlán.
- Aztec, a novel by Gary Jennings, is told through the eyes of an Aztec in the times of the European conquest of Mexico.
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