LA DIOSA BLANCA

LA DIOSA BLANCA

NUEVA EDICIÓN, AMPLIADA Y CORREGIDA

ROBERT GRAVES

$999.00
IVA incluido
Agotado
Editorial:
ALIANZA
Materia
GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA
ISBN:
978-84-206-9178-7
Idioma:
Castellano

Ensayo erudito y apasionado, reconstruye el lenguaje mágico de la Europa antigua mediterránea y septentrional, vinculado a ceremonias religiosas populares en honor a la diosa Luna. Graves nos narra cómo en Europa y Oriente Próximo existían culturas matriarcales que adoraban a una Diosa Suprema y que reconocían a los dioses masculinos solo como sus hijos, consortes o víctimas para el sacrificio. Estas culturas fueron eliminadas por la irrupción del patriarcado que arrebató a las mujeres su autoridad, elevó a los consortes de la Diosa a una posición de supremacía divina y reconstruyó mitos y rituales para ocultar el pasado. La conquista patriarcal llegó a Britania y al resto de Europa occidental alrededor del 400 a. de C. En La Diosa Blanca, Graves mezcla distintos géneros para, a través de los bosques mitológicos de medio mundo, sumergirnos en los antecedentes históricos, tribales y místicos de la poesía, pasando de las mitologías griegas a las simbologías panteístas y naturalistas de los bardos celtas, para terminar satirizando a la sociedad contemporánea. Es su libro más personal, un ensayo inteligente que muestra la originalidad de Robert Graves y que resulta imprescindible para comprender su obra y su manera de pensar. La presente y definitiva edición de La Diosa Blanca la ha llevado a cabo el profesor Grevel Lindop a partir de la última versión y apuntes del autor para la de 1961. Es una nueva y meticulosa traducción de su hijo y albacea literario William Graves.

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  • THEY HANGED MY SAINTLY BILLY
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  • THE CLAUDIUS NOVELS
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    The Claudius Novels includes Robert Graves' best known historical novels, I, Claudius and Claudius the God. In I, Claudius, Robert Graves begins the story of the limping, stammering young man who is suddenly thrust onto the throne after the death of Caligula. Once a rather bookish young man with a limp and a stammer, a man who spent most of his time trying to stay away from the...

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  • ROBERT GRAVES' GREEK EPICS
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    Robert Graves' Greek Epics includes the compelling war story, The Anger of Achilles, and the compelling world of Greek mythology in Hercules, My Shipmate. The Anger of Achilles is a novelized interpretation of Homer's Iliad, told by noted classicist and historical novelist Robert Graves. The war between the Greeks and the Trojans has reached a fever pitch. Offended by Agamemnon...

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