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    The document summarizes the play "El Consejo de los Dioses" ("The Council of the Gods") written in Spanish by Filipino national hero José Rizal when he was 19 years old. The allegorical play depicts the Roman gods Jupiter, Juno, Venus, and Minerva debating which mortal author deserves to receive three grand gifts for their contributions to literature - Homer for "The Iliad", Virgil for "Aeneid", or Cervantes for "Don Quixote". When the gods cannot agree, Jupiter calls upon the goddess Justice to impartially weigh the literary works, finding them equal in merit. Jupiter then decides to award the lyre to Virgil, trumpet to Homer

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    The document summarizes the play "El Consejo de los Dioses" ("The Council of the Gods") written in Spanish by Filipino national hero José Rizal when he was 19 years old. The allegorical play depicts the Roman gods Jupiter, Juno, Venus, and Minerva debating which mortal author deserves to receive three grand gifts for their contributions to literature - Homer for "The Iliad", Virgil for "Aeneid", or Cervantes for "Don Quixote". When the gods cannot agree, Jupiter calls upon the goddess Justice to impartially weigh the literary works, finding them equal in merit. Jupiter then decides to award the lyre to Virgil, trumpet to Homer

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    The document summarizes the play "El Consejo de los Dioses" ("The Council of the Gods") written in Spanish by Filipino national hero José Rizal when he was 19 years old. The allegorical play depicts the Roman gods Jupiter, Juno, Venus, and Minerva debating which mortal author deserves to receive three grand gifts for their contributions to literature - Homer for "The Iliad", Virgil for "Aeneid", or Cervantes for "Don Quixote". When the gods cannot agree, Jupiter calls upon the goddess Justice to impartially weigh the literary works, finding them equal in merit. Jupiter then decides to award the lyre to Virgil, trumpet to Homer

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    El Consejo de los Dioses is a play written in Spanish by Filipino writer andnational hero José

    Rizal, first published in 1880 in Manila by the Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila in 1880, and
    later by La Solidaridad in 1883. El Consejo de los Dioses was written by Rizal when he was only
    nineteen years old, and reveals the humanistic education of the Philippines at the time and his
    answer to scholasticism.

    El Consejo de Los Dioses (The Council of the Gods) is an allegorical play written in 1879 by our
    national hero Jose Rizal. It was first published in Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila review in
    1880, latterly in La Solidaridad in 1883. In December 1900 this was translated in Tagalog. This
    version was adapted into sarswela by Pascual H. Poblete and published in El Comercio de
    Filipinas. Hucapte made arrangements for the staging in 1915 afterwards, in 1961 it was edited
    with a prologue by Astrana Maria in El Cervantismo de heroe Filipino Rizal. Nick Joaquin
    translated the play in English. The play won the first prize award in a 1880-1881 literary contest
    commemorating the death of Cervantes sponsored by the Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila. “I
    enter the future remembering the past”, Rizal's epigraph for the award. This is considered as the
    most sensuous of Rizal's writings, reveals his magnificent showy side as hispanist and classicist.

    Summary Jupiter, the Roman chief of the Gods, is planning to give three grandiose gifts (a golden
    lyre, trumpet, and a golden crown made of laurels) – crafted by Vulcan – to a mortal who did best
    in literature. Juno, Jupiter’s wife, suggests Homer, the writer of “Iliad”. Meanwhile, Venus,
    thegoddess of beauty, recommends Virgil, author of “Aedes.” On the other hand, Minerva
    (goddess of wisdom) goes for Cervantes, author of “Don Quixote.” With this disagreement, the
    other gods were also supposed to fight but were stopped by Jupiter by allowing Justice (a goddess
    not found in the original Roman lineup yet introduced by Rizal in his allegory) to weigh the
    circumstances without any bias in her balance. She weighed the “Aedes” with the “Iliad” and found
    them equal. The same goes with “Don Quixote.” With this, Jupiter decided to give the lyre to
    Virgil, the trumpet to Homer, and the laurels to Cervantes.

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