El P. José de Acosta

Las afinidades hacia la Monarquía del rey de España estuvieron en el centro de la capacidad de proyección y de la presencia imperial ibérica a lo largo del mundo. Estas afinidades permitieron articular una mayor potencia de influencia sobre los territorios y las sociedades exteriores a la Monarquía, generando actores políticos que la identificaron como su aliado natural en sus conflictos civiles, rebeldes que se quisieron apoyar en ella para resistir a los poderes constitutivos, familias que desarrollaron una relación clientelar con el poder ibérico hacia el que confluían sus...

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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...

Pierre Grimal pretende en este libro superar el vacío existente en torno a la interpretación del mito, aunque sin renunciar a ofrecer una exposición abreviada de la materia mítica griega. El texto se plantea el estudio de la mitología griega como problema hermenéutico, aportando sugerentes puntos de vista, pero salvando, por encima de toda reducción racionalista o positivista, el valor de los mitos para el despliegue de la conciencia humana. "Gracias al mito -afirma el autor-, lo sagrado ha dejado de ser terrible, toda una región del alma se ha abierto a la reflexión; gracias a él,...