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100 1 _aCervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,
_d1547-1616
245 1 0 _aNumantia
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2016
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Siege_of_Numantia
500 _aRelease date is 2016-09-13
508 _aProduced by Josep Cols Canals, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
520 _a"Numantia" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is a tragedy written circa 1582. Set during the Roman siege of Numantia in 133 BC, the play depicts the final stand of a Spanish city against Scipio Aemilianus's forces. As starvation grips the besieged town, its citizens face an agonizing choice between surrender and a more drastic alternative. Through allegorical figures and scenes of domestic suffering, Cervantes explores themes of patriotism, sacrifice, and resistance. The work remained unpublished until the eighteenth century but has since been celebrated as a rare specimen of Spanish tragedy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aNumantia (Extinct city) -- Drama
700 1 _aGibson, James Young,
_d1826-1886
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53041
999 _c93875
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