Dioses de la guerra y héroes grecorromanos en el primer pensamiento militar republicano neogranadino (1810-1816)

Abstract

Despite having been overlooked as an object of study in research on the shift of the processes from the old regime to modernity, as well as in the classical tradition and historiographic sensitivity of the political use of history, Hellenic and Latin antiquity was present in the military thought of the First Colombian Republic (1810-1819). Here, the sources that testify to their presence will be shown, emphasizing the gods of war and Greco-Roman military heroes. The main objective of this analysis is not only to highlight the reception and appropriation of the classical legacy in the New Granada but also the intellectual height of the first Neogranadine military thinking.