The Euhemerism of Lactantius in Camões's Lusiads

• Author(s): Alves, Hélio J. S.
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/5763
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Subject(s): euhemerism; theology; Lactantius; Camões
• Document Type: Part of book or chapter of book
• Language: English
• Editor(s): Taylor, Barry; Coroleu, Alejandro

Description

The chapter deals with the question of whether the epic poem by Luís de Camões suffered the influence of Lactantius's Divine Institutions as far as the doctrine of Euhemerism is concerned.