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Os Lusíadas, usually translated as The Lusiads, is a Portuguese epic poem by Luís Vaz de Camões.
Written in Homeric fashion, the poem focuses mainly on a fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries. Os Lusíadas is often regarded as Portugal's national epic, much in the way as Virgil's Aeneid was for the Ancient Romans, as well as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for the Ancient Greeks. It was first printed in 1572, three years after the author returned from the Indies. wikipedia.com
In Canto IX of Os Lusiadas, Luís de Camões conjured up a floating “Isle of Love” as a reward for the dangers and privations that Portuguese sailors endured on Vasco da Gama’s voyage round the Cape to the Indies. This mythical island was amply stocked with virgins for the sailors’ sport, and rills and vales and limpid streams abounded—all modeled on the most pleasant features of the home country world (though, unlike the home country, densely supplied with game animals). Venus was responsible for this island, and it was her sympathy for the suffering sailors that prompted her to physically block their voyage (somewhere off the coast of East Africa) with the isle that one translator called a “Venusberg.” Although Camões’ account has many of the attributes of a founding “orientalist” text, it is largely neglected by postcolonialists. This paper will demonstrate how the expansionist drive of sixteenth-century Portugal was intertwined with fantasies of a zone of unregulated sexuality.
Photographer: Me
Edition: Me
Place: Parque das Nações - Portugal
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Enjoy!~
Written in Homeric fashion, the poem focuses mainly on a fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries. Os Lusíadas is often regarded as Portugal's national epic, much in the way as Virgil's Aeneid was for the Ancient Romans, as well as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for the Ancient Greeks. It was first printed in 1572, three years after the author returned from the Indies. wikipedia.com
In Canto IX of Os Lusiadas, Luís de Camões conjured up a floating “Isle of Love” as a reward for the dangers and privations that Portuguese sailors endured on Vasco da Gama’s voyage round the Cape to the Indies. This mythical island was amply stocked with virgins for the sailors’ sport, and rills and vales and limpid streams abounded—all modeled on the most pleasant features of the home country world (though, unlike the home country, densely supplied with game animals). Venus was responsible for this island, and it was her sympathy for the suffering sailors that prompted her to physically block their voyage (somewhere off the coast of East Africa) with the isle that one translator called a “Venusberg.” Although Camões’ account has many of the attributes of a founding “orientalist” text, it is largely neglected by postcolonialists. This paper will demonstrate how the expansionist drive of sixteenth-century Portugal was intertwined with fantasies of a zone of unregulated sexuality.
Photographer: MeEdition: MePlace: Parque das Nações - Portugal Other photos:Enjoy!~
Image size
2592x3872px 1.13 MB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D60
Shutter Speed
1/500 second
Aperture
F/5.6
Focal Length
200 mm
ISO Speed
320
Date Taken
May 31, 2012, 5:04:26 PM
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Wow, the key by itself is already beautiful, but the entire composition makes such a good photo