Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
Classical Studies
Portuguese translation of Lucan's Pharsalia (books 6 and 7).
In this article, I examine the nature of Dido’s magic ritual in Aeneid 4, reading it as a magic ritual aimed at inducing forgetfulness. I argue that in burning his belongings, Dido intends to forget Aeneas and not to destroy him; for this... more
De uniuersa mulierum medicina, by the Portuguese physician Rodrigo de Castro, is a complex gynaecological treatise that comprises sources concerning various medical aspects, both ancient and contemporary to the author, and also... more
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Please note this article is published with Brepols Publishers as a Gold Open Access article under a Creative Commons CC 4.0: BY-NC license. The article is also freely available on the website of Brepols Publishers:... more
João Curvo Semedo (1635-1719) is the author of, among other works, the Tratado da Peste (1680), a treatise concerning the origins and causes of the plague, and its prevention and treatment. This article aims to present this opus, which... more