Seguindo os passos de um mito: Lúcio Quinto Cincinato, George Washington e a perpetuação do ideal de virtude romana
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Cincinato, George Washington, VirtudeAbstract
Expomos a seguir as linhas tênues entre George Washington e Lúcio Quinto Cincinato. Partindo do pressuposto que Washington seguiu conscientemente muitos dos passos de Cincinato, argumentamos que as diferenças entre ambos se faz no sentido em que Washington, personagem histórica, está sujeito à falibilidade característica de um ser humano real, enquanto Cincinato, personagem mítica, possui um histórico intocável de virtude devido à sua própria natureza mitológica e à falta de acesso de documentos que descrevam sua biografia. Assim, demonstramos como George Washington construiu um ideal de virtude baseado em Cincinato, e como tal empreitada edificou-o como uma das imagens republicanas sacralizadas nos Estados Unidos, a qual foi perpetuada pela historiografia contemporânea a Washington e que hoje é progressivamente desconstruída pela historiografia atual.
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