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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Description of historic facts about Mexico after becoming independent from the influence of Spain. The struggle for creating an identity for a nation that had born in the middle of political crisis due to foreing intervention and local revolutions.

En este libro, el autor explora la construccion de la nacionalidad a traves de los deportes. Analiza dimensiones sociales y culturales de clase que estan reflejadas en las practicas deportivas; toma tres figuras predominantes de epocas distintas: Juan Manuel Gangio, campeon mundial del automovilismo; Carlos Monzon, boxeador, y Diego Armando Maradona, los tres salidos de estratos sociales marginados, y da cuenta de la heterogeneidad que el pais ha sabido albergar, y de la complejidad moral y social que lo atraviesa.

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