Vasco da Gama as narrator in Os Lusiadas.(Portuguese epic by Luys de Camoes)

Portuguese Studies | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

Frank Kermode observes that 'Permanent modernity is conferred on chosen works by arguments and persuasions that cannot themselves remain modern'. (1) Old books continue to be read because they are read in new ways. The changing interpretations of the Aeneid are perhaps the best example. A similar revision of received opinion is taking place concerning Os Lusiadas and for similar reasons.

Richard Heinze, in 1903, considered Aeneas 'the ideal Roman hero' and the Aeneid 'a sublime assertion of the might of Rome and Augustus'. (2) Most classical scholars in the first ...

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