Abstract

VILLALOBOS MARTINEZ, Alejandro. LA ENSEÑANZA DE LA HISTORIA UNIVERSAL ANTIGUA: participación y tipología de los Manuales de Historia en Chile republicano 1810-1876. Rev. hist. am. argent. [online]. 2017, vol.52, n.2, pp.11-40. ISSN 2314-1549.

The purpose of this article is to analyze how the manuals or texts of ancient history contributed to the installation of classical and oriental history as part of the Chilean educational curriculum, a historical experience that should have had similar elements in the rest of Latin America. This analysis is done through the use of various sources, such as speeches, texts collected from different sources. The relevance of this study points out that the history manuals were the main support to know the influence and the thinking of the classics in America. The study focuses on a period of political-ideological renewal and transformation of Chile, between the origins of the motherland in 1810 and the end of the humanist curriculum in 1876. The exploration, cataloging and revision of these universal history manuals has allowed us to identify how the classical world was received in Chile, contributing to the formation especially of the elites, who through the reading and circulation in the different libraries, allowed the proliferation of Ideas and beliefs of the classical authors whose approaches contributed to the formation of Western American thought.

Keywords : Classics; Antiquity; Humanist; Compendium; Greece; Rome; Latin.