O moderno transfigurado de antigo: uma análise da recepção e dos usos da antiguidade Grega pela contemporaneidade a partir da obra literária Percy Jackson.

Abstract

Antiquity has been represented in different ways over the centuries by historians, writers, playwrights, visual artists, etc. In view of this, this paper aims to analyze the literary saga “Percy Jackson and the Olympians”, published between 2005 and 2009, with five volumes, with the aim of understanding the reception and uses of the ancient Greek past by contemporary times, considering that the work portrays Ancient Greece as the founder of Western “civilization”. Using the methodology of content analysis, the research aims to demonstrate how the work propagates the representation of exceptionality of the ancient classical world, constructed by modernity to compose a discourse in defense of the supposed linear continuity between past and present of a “single” History of the West, a proposition that emerged in the 19th century with nationalist and imperialist purposes of opposing the “West” to the “East”. Thus, the research aims to contribute to the critique and deconstruction of reductionist and colonialist receptions of antiquity that affirm the superiority of the “classics” to the detriment of other societies of the time.