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- Title
LA MITOLOGÍA GRECORROMANA EN EL DISCURSO NARRATIVO DE LAS CRÓNICAS UNIVERSALES MEDIEVALES.
- Authors
Miguel de Toro Vial, José
- Abstract
In order to reconstruct Europe's past, the medieval chroniclers had to resort to a series of narrative texts of Greek and Roman origin, which were full of mythological elements, gods and heroes. In this paper we present the process of euhemerism used by these Christian clerics to doctrinally purify ancient history. The analysis of the universal chronicles written in the XII century reveals the construction of a narrative discourse based upon a rich language composed of nouns (fabula, mendacium), adjectives (fabulosus, fictus, ridiculus, mendax) and adverbs, with the purpose of discrediting the veracity of classical mythology.
- Subjects
EUHEMERISM; FABLES; MYTHOLOGY; CLASSICAL mythology; RELIGION &; history; HISTORICAL linguistics; MEDIEVAL &; modern Latin language
- Publication
Alpha: Revista de Artes, Letras y Filosofía, 2017, Issue 45, p77
- ISSN
0716-4254
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4067/S0718-22012017000200077