“Helios”: de los griegos a Eugeni d’Ors. Temas de cultura griega antigua y tradición clásica

This text focuses on varied topics of the ancient Greek world that can be interesting for experts, students and anyone who is interested in Westen science and culture dating from the Hellenistic and classical times. The book is devoted to linguistic, cultural and scientific topics and talks about a new Helios or Sun as an illuminator during the course of history from those times until the present. Some of the topics covered are the double erotic side of love, centaurs, Greek and modern democracy, the Olympic movement, the birth of a written Greek communication and its evolution, Plutarch and Polybius’ bilingualism, ancient Greek medicine and its evolution… At the same time, this text deals with Barlaam and Josaphat, Alfonso X of Castile, the pastoral novel, Juan Fernández de Heredia and his alleged translation of Plutarch to Aragonese, Pedro Montegón and the Catalan Eugeni d’Ors.