Literary Figures: Homer, Cervantes, Carpio, and Classical Greece

Biographies and Literary Analysis

Homer's Biography: His literary value has remained influential through the centuries. His work is timeless. Cervantes' Biography: Miguel de Cervantes, a Spanish novelist and dramatic poet, was born on September 29, 1547, and died on April 22, 1616, in Madrid. He is considered a top figure in Spanish literature. The Martian Chronicles: This work reveals an atmosphere of terror and loneliness, with a great narrative culture and intense irony. Its intention was a humanist speech. Alejo Carpio's Biography: A novelist, essayist, and Cuban musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature. He began studying architecture but failed. He then worked as a journalist and participated in leftist political movements.

Characteristics of Science Fiction

• Presence of Unreal Beings:
  1. Construction: robots, androids.
  2. Product of extraterrestrial evolution.
• Fantastic Situations: The basic rules are inverted to create a world within the text.
• Scientific and Fantastic Elements: The real and the fantastic are indivisible, at the limit of the real and the unreal.
• The Journey Through Time and Space: A desire to populate unknown worlds or locations.
• Parallel Worlds: Universes that have run in similar or parallel ways throughout history.

Structure of Alejo Carpio's Works

• The Harp: Occurs in the process of attempting to canonize Christopher Columbus, who was described as "the plant revealed."
• Shadow: Between the lucubrations of potatoes and devil's advocates, the canonization process returns to Columbus.
• Hand: The marine genre reveals, through a virtual monologue, amazing confessions on his deathbed.

Siglo de Oro (16th and 17th Centuries)

16th Century

First: Garcilaso de la Vega. Second: Miguel de Cervantes.

17th Century

Culteranismo: Luis de Góngora. Conceptismo: Francisco de Quevedo.

Culteranismo Concept

Sensory elements concerned with price and formal artifice through metaphors, adjectives, hyperbaton, and musical rhythmic effects.

Conceptismo Concept

It owes its spiritual concept (1600-1612) to Alonso de Ledesma.

Classical Greece

Greece is located geographically on the European continent, configured internally by a maritime and continental zone.

Greek Mythology

Every nation explains the origin of the world and man differently. The Greeks created numerous myths through gods, heroes, and characters, which were the myths of epic poems.

Features of Epic Poems

• Objective Items: The facts are narrated without sentiment, leaving the emotional impact on the reader.
• Technical Pictorial: Paints actions, weapons, clothes, and places in different situations.
• Grandeur: Marvelousness in the region where it occurs and sublime embellishment of historical facts.
• The Epic Poem: The reflection of the formation of a people's character or a specific time.

Names of the Gods

• Aphrodite: Goddess of beauty and sexual desire.
• Apollo: God of poetry, medicine, and archery.
• Ares: God of war.
• Artemis: Goddess of hunting.
• Asclepius: God of medicine.
• Athena: Goddess of arts, crafts, and war.
• Cronos: God of heaven; sovereign of the Titans.
• Demeter: Goddess of cereals.
• Dionysus: God of wine, pleasure, and vegetation.
• Eros: God of love.