The Lusiads
The Lusiaden , in Portuguese Os Lusíadas , are an epic by the poet Luís de Camões and a classic work of Portuguese literature that was first printed in 1572. The work depictsthe idealized history of Portugal, borneby the humanistic spirit of the Renaissance , in verse form (based on Homer's Odyssey ). The protagonist of the work is the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama , the focus of the plot is the description of the newly discovered sea route to India . With numerous references to mythology and classical antiquity , the Lusiads are the greatest testimony of Portuguese literature because of their quality, but also because of their great patriotism. They arededicated toKing Sebastian of Portugal .
The Lusiads are the inhabitants of Lusitania . This is the Roman name for Portugal, which is said to go back to Lusus , a companion of Bacchus . The work consists of ten chants, each with a different number of stanzas . The 1,102 stanzas contain a total of 8,816 verses . Os Lusíadas first appeared in German under the title Die Lusiaden in 1806.
The author Alexei Schipenko staged an edited version of the Lusiaden in June 2008 at the Teatro de Circo in Braga , Portugal with the ensemble of the Companhia de Teatro de Braga .
See also
literature
- Luís de Camões : The Lusiads. Heroic-epic poem. Translated from Portuguese into iambs by Karl Eitner . Bibliographical Institute, Hildburghausen 1869 ( digitized version ).
- Luís de Camões: The Lusiads. Os Lusíadas. Bilingual. Translated from the Portuguese by Hans Joachim Schaeffer, edited and with an afterword by Rafael Arnold. Fourth, improved edition, Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-932245-28-2 .
Web links
- Reading sample
- Works by Luís de Camões in Project Gutenberg ( currently not usually available for users from Germany )
- Meeting in "Perlentaucher"
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Lusiads . 1800-1882. Retrieved August 31, 2013.