%0 Journal Article 
%A Fernández Camacho, Pamina
%T On the Appropriation of Space through Myth by Spanish Historians: Interpretation of Toponyms and Ethnonyms in the Footsteps of the Classical Tradition.
%D 2019
%@ 1073-0508
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33953
%X The use of the etymology of words to define and explain the reality behind them
wascommon in antiquity. In histories and geographies, non-Greek toponyms and
ethnonyms were etymologically interpreted as Greek words and usually connected to
myth. This was done to organize and simplify a complicated world, but also to
ideologically appropriate areas which were of interest to Greek cities for colonial or
commercial reasons, such as the southwest or east of the Iberian Peninsula. In the
work of medieval Spanish historians, we can see this tradition continue, with the new
purpose of giving prestige to cities and kingdoms through their connection with biblical
and classical lore. However, the Renaissance, with its accompanying shifts in the
influence and perceived purpose of the new Spanish empire, changed the direction of
etymological appropriation: historians such as Nanni, Ocampo and Fernández de
Oviedo began using classical etymological procedures not to claim descent from other
civilizations, but to appropriate the origins and ancient history of other civilizations in
the name of the Spanish crown.
%K Ancient Historiography
%K Spanish Historiography
%K Spanish Renaissance
%K Etymology
%K Annius of Viterbo
%K Florián de Ocampo
%~ Universidad de Cádiz