Viajes en el Mediterráneo antiguo

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Siguiendo la estructura de un banquete platónico que se prolonga durante los tres días de la festividad de Saturnales, Macrocio hace participar a las figuras más destacadas del último paganismo son los últimos defensores de la tradición romana en un mundo cambiante en el que el cristianismo triunfa. Su conversación irá desarrollando múltiples temas: serios en la mañana, como la teología solar, el patetismo en la retórica o la obra de Virgilio.

Este libro, que reúne –a veces, refundidos o ampliados- textos anteriores del autor, trata de fronteras, y por tanto, sobre todo de Portugal. Su espíritu, su naturaleza, su impulso fronterizo fueron inseparables de una realidad nacional, más antigua y más inmóvil -en su territorio “continental”- que ninguna otra. Fronteras, en plural, porque hubo varias: la del aislamiento, cerrada y defensiva, en la Península; la de la proyección mundial por los caminos oceánicos, que logró construir tres imperios coloniales; la de su interiorización, sorprendida aquí en la dramática figura ...