Classical Tradition as Concept and Method: Visual Arts and Literature

Abstract

Though my contribution to the 2012 Minerva colloquium on Classical Tradition follows the scheme proposed by the organizers (Classical Tradition as concept and method, as a tool in the scholarly writings of María Rosa Lida, and as the basic poetic principle in the literary works of both the Archpriest of Hita and the Count of Villamediana), it also includes some related materials which may be of particular interest for junior researchers. In spite of the unavoidable fragmentary character of this essay, its central subject gives coherence to the whole and justifies the addition of such disiecta membra.