A escrita da história da antiguidade no Brasil oitocentista: um estudo do Compêndio de História Universal (1860), de Justiniano José da Rocha

Abstract

This dissertation aims to understand how to write the history of Antiquity in nineteenthcentury Brazil. This historical research articulates the idea of a "legacy" of Greece with the civilizing process in the occidental world, and the reference input of the ancient historians for the construction of "historical science" in the nineteenth century. In this perspective, we analyze the importance of antiquity and the classical tradition in nineteenth-century Brazil, mainly in the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute (IHGB), the legitimating institution of the writing of history, and in the Imperial College Pedro II (ICPII), high school parameter of secondary education in the country. To investigate this theme we selected books of Ancient History, written in Brazil, between the 1860s and 1890, which are filed in IHGB in particular the Compêndio de História Universal, Justiniano José da Rocha.