RT Book, Section
T1 Romantic Poets and the Legend of the Haunted Cave of Hercules
T2 La leyenda de la Cueva encantada de Hércules según los poetas románticos
A1 Vega Rodríguez, Pilar María
A2 Brigitte le Juez, 
A2 Bill Richardson, 
AB This essay analyzes several versions of the legend of Don Rodrigo and the fall of Spain,  as it was understood by some Spanish and European Romantic writers (poets, novelists and playwrights). Our attention is focused on the treatment that these writers made of the spaces contained in the legend and of the trajectory and movements of the charac ters, from which a symbolic and political interpretation and ethical reflection can be derived. The legend of Don Rodrigo, well-known throughout Europe in the nineteenth century, is an example of an etiologic myth of “decadence”. Its objective is to explain the end of the first age of Christianity in Spain and the rapid Muslim conquest. There would be two alternative accepted explanations. The loss of Spain is a consequence of the loss of Christian virtues on the part of the rulers, to whom God grants authority to serve and lead his subjects to the kingdom of heaven; or else, it was God’s will that Spain should be lost and nothing could have prevented it.
PB Brill
SN 978-90-04-40292-8
SN 978-90-04-40293-5 PDF
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98148
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98148
LA eng
NO Vega Rodríguez, Pilar. "Romantic Poets and the Legend of the Haunted Cave of Hercules." Spaces of Longing and Belonging. by Brigitte Le Juez and Bill Richardson, Leiden, Brill, 2019, pp. 134-153. ISBN. 9789004402928153.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 22 abr 2025