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title: "The Lusiads (Penguin Classics)"
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# The Lusiads (Penguin Classics)

**Brand:** luis vaz de camoeswilliam c. atkinson
**Price:** ₱2055
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- **What is this?** The Lusiads (Penguin Classics) by luis vaz de camoeswilliam c. atkinson
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Long on adventure, short on ecumenism
  

*by P***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2013*

"The Lusiads" is the Portuguese national epic, and its author, Luís Vaz de Camões, is a national hero throughout Portugal. When you travel in Portugal and see a painting or statue of a man in medieval armor with one eye closed, you can pretty much count on it being a painting or statue of Camões, who lost an eye as a Portuguese soldier. "The Lusiads" tells a story of Vasco da Gama successfully making his way around Cape Horn and voyaging to India to begin the creation of Portugal's overseas colonial empire. In Camões's vision of the Da Gama expedition, the explorer achieves this success for Portugal and Christianity in spite of bitter opposition from Muslim warlords and rulers in both East Africa and India. As for Camões's attitude toward Islam, suffice it to say that pretty much every Muslim in the book is evil and treacherous, except for one decent and honorable Muslim who ends up helping Da Gama and converting to Christianity! In other words, this book is not going to receive an Interfaith Award for Ecumenical Understanding anytime soon. It is also interesting to note that, because Camões seems to have wished to display his classical education, pre-Christian deities of ancient Rome, like Bacchus and Venus, play a prominent role in mortal doings the same way they do in the works of Homer and Virgil - rather jarring in a book that makes so much of its commitment to Roman Catholic Christianity. Bacchus in particular is quite an antagonist of Da Gama and crew, constantly stirring up the Muslims of various kingdoms to try to destroy the Portuguese Christian heroes of the book. Not an easy read by any means, but an interesting insight into the self-image of Portugal just as that small Iberian nation was entering what is still called its Golden Age.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Portuguese History
  

*by A***L on Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2013*

A bit heavy going. But necessary to understand and appreciate Portuguese history. Stick with it. The seamen of Portugal discovered large portions of the world unknown to Europeans.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Five Stars
  

*by V***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2016*

Book was as described and arrived promptly.  Thank you!

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