After reviewing the state of art on classical history in Chilean Independence, this article examines and explains how classical Greco - Roman history served as an archetype for the configuration of the Chilean Republic. In this sense, this article analyzes how literate patriots used passages of history classical to use them as various guidelines to serve in their political projects. For this documentation of the presses of the period will be taken into account deposited in the National Library of Chile will be taken into account. The text studies the background of the retorical dispute between Jose Miguel Carrera and the editors of the presses. The role played by Lucio Sergio Catilina in this conflicto. The influenced of classical history on the constitutional modelo of Juan Egana will be examined considered as true models of government and political virtues.