Haciendo historia

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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...

Este volumen, segundo de una serie de varios que se han proyectado, reune varios estudios que tienen en comun su interes por descrubrir y conocer vinculos entre la historia humana y la naturaleza. No sera aventurado decir que esos vinculos son infinitos, o casi. Acciones y percepciones de individuos y sociedades tienen que ver, en un sentido u otro, con realidades como el clima, la hidrografia, la flora o la fauna. El correr del tiempo marca tendencias y diferencias en una sucesion interminable de cambios. Asi, los vinculos entre historia humana y naturaleza dan pie a una enorme variedad de...

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,...