El mito del héroe

Tocó a Publio Virgilio Marón (70-19 a.C.) ser, al mismo tiempo, testigo y artífice de uno de los momentos singulares de la historia de Roma: el fin de la República y el advenimiento y consolidación del Principado augustal. Es, por otra parte, el poeta más celebrado de la latinidad, leído y valorado desde la Antigüedad Clásica hasta nuestros días. Ya el poeta T. S. Eliot, en una conferencia memorable que pronunciara en Londres –titulada «¿Qué es un clásico?»–, definió al autor de la Eneida como el clásico por antomasia, ya que sirvió como canon o paradigma de lo poético...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Políticas de la violencia. Europa siglo XX propone un análisis comparado de las prácticas que hicieron del siglo pasado el más violento de la contemporaneidad en el Viejo Continente. No es un catálogo de guerras internacionales y civiles, represalias internas, genocidios, represiones políticas o prácticas terroristas. Es una propuesta de revisión teórica y empírica de algo tan poliédrico como la violencia colectiva en la Europa del siglo XX, realizada por algunos de los mejores especialistas en la materia.

Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacán, and Guanajuato from the middle of the...