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Rebeca Dorta González

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� 1.: Historical Contexts.❖ 1.1.: Classical Antiquity.

❖ 1.2.: Middle Ages.

❖ 1.3.: Modern Age.

❖ 1.4.: Contemporary Age.

� 2.: Writers.❖ 2.1.: Sappho of Mytilene.

❖ 2.2.: Lubna of Córdoba.

❖ 2.3.: Aphra Behn.

❖ 2.4.: Agatha Cristie.

❖ 2.5.: Laura Gallego.

1.: Historical Contexts.

1.1.: Classical Antiquity� The term Classical Antiquity is a historiographical

expression1 to refer to the Greco-Roman period of the Ancient Age, a long historical period that falls between High Antiquity (the time of the first civilizations of the Ancient Near East) 2 and Low Antiquity (or Late Antiquity); and that properly corresponds to the Greco-Roman world: the Mediterranean Basin and the Near East, areas where ancient Greece and ancient Rome developed the Greco-Roman civilization. The term "classic" means "of greater fullness" or "model worthy of imitation", 3 and its use to designate the period is markedly admiring, based on a later idealized vision of the period and its influence on the conformation of the western civilization.

1.2.: Middle Ages.� The Middle Ages or Medieval is the historical

period of Western civilization between the 5th and 15th centuries. Conventionally, its beginning is located in the year 476 with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and its end in 1492 with the discovery of America, 1 or in 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire, a date that has the singularity of coinciding with the invention of the printing press - publication of Gutenberg's Bible - and with the end of the Hundred Years' War.

1.3.: Modern Age.

� The Modern Age is divided, between the 15th and 18th centuries. Chronologically, it houses a period whose beginning can be set in the fall of Constantinople (1453) or the discovery of America (1492), and whose end can be placed in the French Revolution (1789) or at the end of the previous decade, after independence. of the United States (1776). In this convention, the Modern Age corresponds to the period in which the values of modernity stand out compared to the previous period, the Middle Ages, which is generally identified as an isolated and intellectually dark age.

1.4.: Contemporary Age.

� Contemporary Age is the name used to designate the historical period between the Declaration of Independence of the United States or the French Revolution, and today. In this period, humanity underwent a demographic transition, completed for the most advanced societies and still ongoing for most, which has carried its growth beyond the limits historically imposed by nature, achieving the generalization of the consumption of all kinds of products, services and natural resources that have raised their standard of living for a large part of human beings in a previously unsuspected way, but that have sharpened the social and spatial inequalities and pose serious environmental uncertainties for the near future.

2.: Writers.

2.1.: Sappho of Mytilene � Birth: 650 b.C., Mytilene.

� Death: 580 b.C., Leúcade.

� Occupation: Poet.

About Sappho's personal life there is only conjecture. Most of them come from interpretations of his poetic work, of which less than ten percent are believed to have reached us.

Her acme coincided with the rise of the Greek polis. The tyrant Mirsilo ruled in Lesbos, and his rise to power must have caused her exile in Syracuse between 605 and 591 BC.

� According to a legend, Sappho, induced by the goddess, committed suicide by throwing herself into the sea from the rock of Leukade when her love for Phaon was not reciprocated.

2.2.: Lubna od Co rdoba.

� Birth: X century, Madinat Al-Zahra

� Death: 984 a.C., Carmona.

� Occupation: Intellectual, writer, librarian and mathematical.

Her exact dates of birth and death are unknown, there are no records of the time that relate her life. It is known that he was born into a slave family that works in the palace of Abderramán III, Medina Azahara, and that he grew up within its walls.

In addition to Lubna, history has preserved the name of Fátima, another secretary of Alhakén II.

Manumitida, apart from being the caliph's senior secretary, has been assigned multiple functions: copyist, clerk, expert in acquisitions of the royal library, private secretary, and mathematician. She too, along with the Jew Hasday ibn Shaprut, was the promoter of the creation of the famous Medina Azahara library. She was not simply a writer and translator, but also commented on these books. To which she adds that she was a teacher of poor children in al-Andalus, teaching them mathematics.

2.3.: Aphra Behn � Birth: 10th July 1640, Kent (England Kingdom)

� Death: 16th April 1689, London (England Kingdom)

� Occupation: Playwright, translator, poet, writer, novelist and feminist.

Born in July 1640, she was the second daughter of Bartolomeo Johnson, a humble barber, and Elizabeth Denham, and was baptized on December 14; his place and date of birth are much debated, however. Oroonoko will then lead a slave revolt. Captured by his enemies, he will die between terrible tortures. Aphra Behn also dedicated herself to making profitable translations from French and Latin into English.

The best of his art, however, is contained in his comedies, among which are The Forc'd Marriage, that is, The Forced Marriage, The Pretending Courtesans and The Rover, The Vagabond, a work in two parts dated 1677 and 1681 respectively. where he narrates the adventures of a group of English knights in Madrid and Naples during the exile of Carlos II.

2.4.: Agatha Cristie.� Birth: 15th September 1890, Devon (United

Kingdom)

� Death: 12th January 1976, Oxfordshire (United Kingdom)

� Occupation: Novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on September 15, 1890 to an upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon, south-west England. Her mother, Clara Boehmer, originally from Belfast, was born in 1854 as the only daughter. wife of Captain Frederick Boehmer and Mary Ann West, a marriage that had four boys, one of whom died young. Although her mother believed that children should not learn to read until the age of eight, Agatha learned at four. She was also instructed about music and learned to play instruments such as the guitar and the mandolin.

His father was often ill and suffered a series of heart attacks until he died in November 1901 at the age of 55.

2.5.: Laura Gallego.� Birth: 11th October 1977, Spain.

� Occupation: Writer of children's and young people's literature.

At the age of 18, he began to write Zodiaccía, a different world. It took him three years to finish it and, although it has never been published, he has a special affection for that story. Finis Mundi was followed by titles such as Mandragora, or the tetralogy Crónicas de la Torre. However, although his fame is mainly due to youth novels, he has also published works aimed at children.

In 2002, she was awarded again in this contest, this time for her novel The Legend of the Wandering King. Later he has published several independent books, most of them fantasy themes, in addition to the second part of Fire Wings, entitled Black Wings. He has also delved into realistic literature with the series Sara and the scorers, which includes titles such as: Creating a team, The girls are warriors, Scorers in the league, Soccer and love are incompatible, The scorers do not surrender and The last goal.

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