Abstract
The story of the Celtiberian town of Numancia and its fall in 133 B.C., as seen in the writings of Livy, Plutarch and others, was a well established topos in sixteenth-century Spain. The accounts of the bravery of the Numantians in defending their besieged city formed the basis for hispanitas, the gradual construction of a Spanish national identity. This paper examines the circulation of the tale of Numancia in four writers of the period: Antonio Guevara, Ambrosio de Morales, Fernando de Herrera, and Miguel de Cervantes.
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