La utopía del bárbaro. Imágenes idealizadas del pasado prerromano en la España contemporánea

Abstract

The topic of the heroic resistance of Iberians against Rome has played a key role in ancient and modern imagination, emerged from the cynic-stoic notion of the noble savage and perpetuated through humanistic and positivistic reading of sources. This essentialist and idealized vision has been transformed and reinvented by the historical and ideological context of each moment; we analyze some of the elements involved in this cultural construct, in their ancient and modern dimension, and their transmission mechanisms, and explore one of its most interesting versions, its derivation into a socialist utopia.