La mitología grecorromana en el discurso narrativo de las crónicas universales medievales

Translated title of the contribution: Greco-roman mythology in the narrative discourse of the medieval universal chronicles

José Miguel De Toro Vial*

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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.

Translated title of the contributionGreco-roman mythology in the narrative discourse of the medieval universal chronicles
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)77-89
Number of pages13
JournalAlpha
Volume2017
Issue number45
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2017
Externally publishedYes

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