Jorge Luis Borges

Among the adventures of Odysseus, his encounter with the mysterious goddess Circe, who transforms the hero's companions into swine, has long been a favorite of readers. The combination of magic, metamorphosis, intrigue, seduction, and danger in this episode of the Odyssey make it particularly attractive and thought-provoking, so that many later authors mention or recreate it: Apollonius of Rhodes, Plutarch, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Lope, Calderon, etc. This book analyzes the tradition of the Homeric myth in western literature, from ancient Greece to the present day, with particular attention to...

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Plauto, el más hilarante comediógrafo latino, adaptó con originalidad las obras de la Comedia Nueva griega, y su influencia se extiende hasta El avaro de Molière y la faceta cómica de Shakespeare. Las veinte comedias que se nos han conservado de Plauto (h. 250-184 a.C.), todas ellas adaptaciones de la Comedia Nueva griega, bastan para asegurar al autor su puesto de máximo comediógrafo latino. Con un uso muy libre y animado de los originales, simplificando la trama para agradar a un público romano popular, Plauto cosechó un éxito inmediato. Sus comedias plantean situaciones típicas...

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