Carlos Martínez Aguirre (born 1974, in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

) is a Spanish poet and classical scholar. He holds a degree in

Classical Philology Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

. He has been a Spanish teacher in the Cervantes Institute of Athens and a research student at the Institute of Byzantine Studies in the same city.Brief biography
@ El País. He was nominated for the Hyperion Prize for Poetry in 1997. He is best known for his poems ''La camarera del cine Doré y otros poemas'' (1997), ''El peregrino'' (2014), ''El significado de las lágrimas'' (2020) and his autobiographical essay about the didactics of Classical Languages ''A Strange Odyssey. Confessions of a Classicist'' (2013).Published works
@ National Library of Spain.Book review
@ The Patrologist. In the field of education, he has excelled in advocating for the didactic revitalization of classical language instruction, particularly through the implementation of natural and active teaching methodologies, most notably the approach pioneered by Professor Hans Henning Ørberg. He is the son of writer Antonio Martínez Menchén, grandson of painter

Lorenzo Aguirre Lorenzo Victoriano Aguirre Sánchez (14 November 1884 – 6 October 1942) was a Spanish painter. He also worked as a caricaturist, poster artist and set designer. Biography He was born in Pamplona, but his parents moved to Alicante when he ...

, nephew of poet

Francisca Aguirre Francisca Aguirre Benito (27 October 1930 – 13 April 2019) was a Spanish poet and author. Her first poetry collection, ''Ithaca'', published in 1972, won her the Leopoldo Panero Poetry Award. In 2011, she won the National Poetry Award for her ...

and writer Andrés Sorel, and a cousin of poet

Guadalupe Grande Guadalupe Grande Aguirre (30 May 1965 – 2 January 2021) was a Spanish poet. She had a degree in social anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid. Biography Guadalupe was the daughter of writer Félix Grande Félix Grande Lara (F ...

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