Una denuncia al fanatismo religioso desde un enfoque antibelicista: La religión griega como alegoría política en El Antenor (1788), de Pedro Montengón

Abstract

Montengón is one of the most important Spanish novelists of 18th century, author of novels so representatives of that period as Eusebio or El Rodrigo. El Antenor (1788), narration with mythical nature, is one of his minors novels, and it doesn’t highlight from a literary point of view, but it belongs so much interest to narrow down political believes of his author. We know that it has an antibelicist background, but so far it has not been fully studied or fully specified what this pacifism consist of. In the present work we analyze how in one of the episodes, relative to the adventures of the protagonist in the temple of Diana, in Tauride, Montengón manages to articulate a political allegory in which complain a religious fanaticism cause he consider it an important obstacle to the pacific coexistence between people.

Keywords

• pedro montengón
• antibelicism
• political allegory
• religious fanaticism
• greek religion