Wise men and their marks of authority: between Hesiod and Nahuatl poetry
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to analyze the prologue of Theogony in order to think about the authority that the Muses confer on Hesiod. We intend to highlight the type of indications that they give to him to understand the register of authority that is deployed by electing him as their servant. By tracing the characteristics that define a teacher of truth, we will try to establish a comparative reading with Nahuatl poetry, based on the annotations and compilations of the oral tradition that Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) overturned in his General History of the Things of New Spain.
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