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The current project (2011-2013) tries to demonstrate and to rationally study the configuration of an incipient Greco-Latin literary Historiography in Spainduring the span of time between the end of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. BY FRANCISCO GARCÍA JURADO HLGEThe study starts concretely in 1778 -the year Gregorio Mayáns published Vida de Virgilio, with the aim of instructing the young about good taste in literature-, and finishes in 1850, date of the second edition of Alfredo Adolfo Camús’ Sinopsis Lectionum, written in order to articulate a new historical teaching of Latin literature in Elizabethan universities. In this context, the prospect of classical humanities in general and literary Historiography in particular is, undoubtedly, proper of a moment of transition, characterized by deep ideological and historical changes. As the research group H.L.G.E., and in the line of our previous studies on Historiography, in this project we plan to trace a relationship between the Classical Studies and the cultural History itself, which is marked by the evolution from “critical History” (or Literary History during the Enlightenment) to the “philosophical History” (or History of national Literatures, product of the new Romantic thought, specially from 1815). Our aims can be summed up in the following five points:(1)   A systematic study of the handbooks of Greek and Latin literature, not losing sight of other similar educative tools, such as anthologies of texts, treatises on Poetics and Rhetoric, as well as grammars of Greek and Latin languages. This analysis will permit to study the relationship between classical literary Historiography as an emerging discipline and the educational reality of the period.(2)   A detailed study of the most important literary collections that included translations of classical authors (for instance, the editions by Antonio de Sancha or Benito Monfort). The aim of this study is to elaborate a list of translations concerning concrete and representative aspects of Greco-Latin literature, paying special attention to the classical authors that bring more interest, such as Virgil, Horace, Plutarch, Vitruvius or Columella. In particular, we will study the phenomenon of the recuperation of old editions of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries written in Castilian (“retrospective editions”). By doing so, it will be possible to evaluate the weight the classical literary Historiography had in the world of editorials during the years from 1778 to 1850.(3)   The compilation of a catalogue of the philological studies and learned speeches given during this period of time, as well as a study on scientific collections that comprise studies on Greco-Latin literature. This catalogue will permit to examine the role that the classical literary Historiography played in the Spanish academic context, and the influence it received fromItaly,Germany,FranceandEngland.(4)   The elaboration of a wide anthology of literary texts extracted from Spanish literature, in order to trace the actual awareness that existed about the classical literary Historiography in the literary creation from times of Charles III to the years of Elizabeth II. Four essential parameters are taken into account: a) travel literature, b) the aesthetic of the sublime, c) the modern European intermediaries with the classics, d) literature of historical character. By compiling this anthology, we will analyze the contact that the writers educated on Greek or Latin languages actually had with the classical literary Historiography.(5)   A detailed study of the social and political aspects that somehow affects the Historiography of the Greco-Latin literature, such as the patriotic and aesthetic controversy about Virgil and the “Spanish” Lucan, or the redefinition of Latin as a “sage language” -according to the historical parameters of the educated classes. The aim is, likewise, to highlight the different political values that the teaching of Latin and its literature had in the frame of the last period of Enlightenment, during Ferdinand’s absolutism, and in the subsequent period of liberal inspiration –a period that legitimizes the study of the Greco-Latin literature as an essentially historical subject. Regarding this aspect, we will also consider the effects the Napoleonic invasions had in the teaching of classical literatures as national literatures from 1815.The joint analysis of the different aspects explained above is outlined in the frame of a concrete hypothesis and a common methodology: the relationship of the classical humanities and its teaching with the general processes that took place in the History of Spain from Enlightenment to Liberalism. 