Reinos mitológicos de la España antigua

Did you know that Renaissance chronicles attributed the founding of Spain to Tubal, Noah's grandson? That Osiris himself, the divine king of Egypt, fought a colossal war here against the giant Geryon? Or that Hercules did not fight a three-headed Iberian monster, but three powerful monarch brothers called the Geryons Lominios? Have you ever imagined Tartessos as the scene of glorious battles between gods and titans? Were the Sicanians of Sicily an Iberian people expelled from the Segre River? We are fascinated by the legendary infinity of Greece and Rome, world-famous, but the complex and unique mythology in which Hispania has its roots has unfortunately been banished to oblivion. What became of the pioneering chroniclers who, blending reality and fiction, sought to reveal the origins of Spain's true identity? To what extent do the latest archaeological findings force us to rescue texts that were believed to be outdated? A captivating universe of immortal deities, ancient languages, mysterious civilizations, and portentous creatures comes to life before us, with the Peninsula as the setting, when we look beyond the simplistic paradigm currently in force. Mythological Kingdoms of Ancient Spain is not merely a collection of fables, but an extraordinary and rigorous work of research that confronts us with the conflictive mechanism of the construction of collective memory through the centuries. Alejandro Herrero, a tireless scholar, sets out to unravel the truth behind what chronicles and records have stated or concealed, to paint the most accurate picture of the mythical Hispanic world, far removed from both crude fantastical distortion and rationalist reductionism. Eritía, Céltica, Hespero, Atlante, Gárgoris, Abidis... here is a great story that, like all such stories, deserved to be embellished.