Homeric characters in the Portuguese Restoration Literature
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i19.34807Keywords:
Literary reception, Neo-Latin Literature, Portuguese Literature, Political Literature, Portuguese RestorationAbstract
The Portuguese revolution of December 1640 saw the birth not only of a new dynasty in Portugal but also of a whole literary source of support for the new Portuguese monarchy. Over the three decades of war that passed from the revolution to the Peace of Lisbon, numerous documents were produced in Portugal for internal and external consumption: legal treaties, battle reports, gazettes, memorials, but also sermons and panegyrics, always with the objective of juridically and politically justifying the restoration of the Portuguese monarchy, but also praising the new king and his descendants. This paper focuses on a particular type of praise and justification: on the one hand, the panegyric topics of emulation by King John IV of the Homeric heroes, specifically of Achilles; on the other hand, the justification of the antiquity of the kingdom of Portugal, foundation and descendants of the same Homeric heroes.
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