Characters in this poem are discouraged by the Old Man of Restelo and menaced by a monstrous personi cation of the Cape of Good Hope called Adamastor on their way to Calicut.
A character who  rst appeared in this poem is reimagined as the tribal elder T'kama in a 1993 novel by André Brink couched as that character's " rst life." Tethys offers a Ptolemaic (toh-leh-MAY-ik) account of the universe at a feast on the Isle of Love in the penultimate canto of this poem, whose  nal canto includes a description of the "machine of the world." The actions of a group of men in this poem cause Bacchus to urge Neptune to convene a council of sea gods. Characters in this poem are discouraged by the Old Man of Restelo and menaced by a monstrous personi cation of the Cape of Good Hope called Adamastor on their way to Calicut. Vasco da Gama's voyage to India is  ctionalized in, for 10 points, what poem by Luís de Camões (loo-EES "day" kah-MOH-ens) that serves as the national epic of Portugal?
A character who  rst appeared in this poem is reimagined as the tribal elder T'kama in a 1993 novel by André Brink couched as that character's " rst life.
The Lusiads [or Os Lusíadas]