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In the eighties of 20th century, Vergil was interpreted from a precise and particular approach inspired by Nietzsche. This new vision could be categorized, basically, as the idea of death (Broch), the sickness of poetry (García Calvo), the commemoration (remembrance) of the bimillennium of his death (Colinas), his poetic rereading from a new aesthetics (Borges and Bernhard), the boom of verse translation (Fontán Barreiro) and, finally, the remarkable picto-rial rereading of his Eneida (Carlos Franco). Therefore, this essay tries to give an account of a specific decade in Vergil's historical reception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1848, Adolfo Alfredo Camus, who will become the most important teacher of Classical literature in Spain during the nineteenth century, won the chair that will play for decades at the Central University of Madrid. Our aim in this paper is to study the exercise of his exam, the Oratio ad cathedram Litteraturae latinae obtinendam, written in Latin and preserved in the General Archive of the State Administration. Our main finding has been to establish the two literary sources that feed it: the exordium is based in a rewriting of a speech composed by the humanist Marcus Antonius Muretus (De laudibus litterarum) and the development of the subject, the life and work of Silius Italicus, reuses the prose of a scholar of the eighteenth century: Nicolaus Funccius (De imminenti linguae Latinae senectute). In sum, we have managed to consider the historical significance of this Oratio and the way it combines the sixteenth century Latin oratory with the literary scholarship of the eighteenth century, when Latin literature had the name of Latinae litterae or Historia Latinae linguae. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to establish the basis of what in the future will be the Hispanic Dictionary of the Classical Tradition (DHTC). The entries of this dictionary will be conducted from two criteria: (a) fundamental concepts and methods of the classical tradition, from initial positivity to new theories about the text, and (b) names of modern scholars who have resulted in its history and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to conduct a reflection on the new reality that has occurred in the context of the present discipline of the Classical Tradition: the emergence of Reception Studies, in order to rereading Greek and Latin Classics over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The formulation of the concept of classicus, referred to the most distinguished authors, appears the first time in the 2nd century A.D. It derives from a metaphorical use of the term, understood in its oldest meaning (at the beginning classicus refered to an old social division based on the financial solvency of each citizen, and established in Rome during Servius Tullius' time). Therefore, the metaphorical use of classicus refers to the best archaic Latin writers, as if they were the ideal inhabitants of an old literary Rome. The term classicus undergoes many modifications throughout History, until Italo Calvino made the last big formulation of the term at the end of the 20th century. In short, there is an evolution from a hierarchic conception to an open and more personal idea of the "classics". Despite all these changes, between the first and the last formulation it happens to be a surprising connecting thread: an invisible city and a Latin author that lives there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the specific use that some modern authors have made of Greek and Latin quotations in order to build their scary stories, from the second half of the eighteenth century to the twentieth century. Quotations from Plinius the Younger, Aulus Gelius or Vergil had an important presence in these accounts, where they were re-read from the view of modern Gothic aesthetics. The way new authors get knowledge of Greek and Latin texts is not always the same: anthologies, citations from rare works, or school readings play different roles when using the ancient authors in a modern novel. This paper will deal with works by Charles Maturin, Jan Potocki, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Schwob and Jorge Luis Borges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]