Panorama de la literatura griega en Iberoamérica (1767-1850)

Abstract

In this paper, we study the poor presence of Greek Literature in Latin America, since the expulsion of Jesuits until the mid-nineteenth Century. This time coincides with the last years of Spanish colonialism and early independences of most South American countries. The knowledge of Greek authors is indirect, with few exceptions, and the study of ancient Greek language advances timidly in some countries, coinciding with the kind of country that the Founding Fathers plan to build