Forms of appropriation of the ancient world in Venezuela: Classical symbols and figures in the national imaginary of the 19th century

Abstract

This work proposes to study the ancient world in its projection through some classical symbols and figures and their forms of appropriation and diffusion among the imaginary and their forms of appropriation and dissemination between the hegemonic cultural hegemonic cultural imaginary and the popular subaltern in Venezuela. This study will move away from the viewpoints that have traditionally prevailed in the study of culture in Venezuela. the study of classical culture in Venezuela, approaching it in a partial way without approaching it in a partial way, without considering problems of greater problems such as the meaning that these cultural elements can have. cultural elements can have. This first, non-definitive approach approach seeks to approach the subject as a bidirectional projection of the bidirectional projection of elites - popular masses.