Roma y su imperio

Esta «Historia de la literatura latina» abarca una tradición literaria que se remonta desde el siglo III a.C. hasta el siglo IV d. C. La periodización se limita a dos grandes periodos: el conformado por los textos de época republicana y augustea, y el referido a época imperial. Bajo cada uno de estos dos grandes apartados se distinguen dos amplias secciones, poesía y prosa, que organizan a su vez la materia por géneros, aunque respetando la unidad en la presentación de autores como Virgilio, Ovidio, Horacio o Séneca, entre otros. Los escritos de carácter técnico se reúnen en un...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Este libro estudia los origenes de la Universidad de La Habana que en la epoca colonial fue dirigida por la Orden de los Dominicos. Pero ademas de aportar datos importantes sobre el origen y desarrollo de la Universidad y de la historia colonial cubana, ofrece un resumen biografico de las personalidades cubanas que estudiaron en la Universidad en los siglos xviii y xix, que fueron los forjadores de la Nacion Cubana. Entre ellos: Arango y Parre?o, Jose A. Caballero, Escobedo, Pe?alver, Romay, Urrutia, P. Felix Varela, Aguilera, Joaquin de Aguero, Bachiller y Morales, Calixto Bernal, Cespedes,...

At the juncture of an Excan Tlahltoloyan invasion to Cholula, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca engage in a violent war when disputing the love of goddess Victoria on the gladiatorial stone, who is manifested as the emissary and harbinger of the fifth sun destruction. Amid rituals and sacrifices, flowery warfare, and tzompantli, love blossoms and dies. The story is complemented by a chilling account of the Battle of Zacatecas and the Jerez fair, where Mexican traditions are illustrated and glorified.