Centón Epistolario I

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Este libro traza la génesis de los poemas homéricos y nos invita a releerlos reponiendo estos episodios en la historia de la Grecia antigua. Muestra, particularmente, que la sociedad y la civilización material descritas en la Ilíada y en la Odisea son casi las mismas, mientras que la función de los dioses y la ideología real divergen profundamente.

The true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico—and faced bloody consequences. In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the emperor and empress of Mexico. They and their entourage arrived in a Mexico ruled by terror, where revolutionary fervor was barely suppressed by French troops. When the United States, now clear of its own Civil War, aided the rebels in pushing back Maximilian’s imperial soldiers,...

En este libro, Fernando García de Cortázar propone un emocionante recorrido por la historia del mundo a través de los ojos de un niño, guiado por seis grandes personajes históricos: Heródoto, Ibn Jaldún, Leonardo da Vinci, Montesquieu, Joseph Conrad y Stefan Zweig. De la mano de estos inigualables maestros, el niño asiste fascinado al nacimiento y progreso de la civilización, aventura que él vive con la emoción de una buena película. La ilustración corre a cargo de Jvlivs (Mi primer Quijote, Pequeña historia de España), que con su inconfundible estilo gráfico aporta a la obra...