In the ensuing months, you will see a new poetic arise in my work, but really it's a return to my roots.
Delving so deep into modern modes has butchered my poetics profusely, and I simply desire to return to the likes of my golden age of prosperity.
I sacrificed my love and passions of neoclassicism, to make a more accessible body of work... if it weren't so unselfish I would be ashamed.
I believe there is a place for neoclassicism, and I no longer feel obligated to conform to modern means of communication and poetics. Please, be patient with me as I get back on track.
I wait. I'd prefer something as Fernando Pessoa. This socially weirdo, wrote the finest verses. He was such a virtuoso of poetry that he could not be content with his style: he had to have several diverse styles, which he pretended were written by different people (his "heteronyms"). He crafted the biographies of these "other selves" so well that for a time his readership believed them real. One of his heteronyms was a half-Scottish engineer who wrote futuristic verse, other was a barely literate countryman who had never been introduced to religion, another was a Latinist and a monarchist. A poet who could fake to have multiple personalities and wrote extensively as each of them. The beginnings of Portuguese poetry go back to the early 12th century. Explore them and Portuguese history.
The Portuguese Empire, also known as the Portuguese Overseas, was the 1st global empire in History and the 1st modern colonial European power, starting in 1415 with the conquest of Ceuta in Morocco, over 500 years after Portugal's foundation as a country in 868 and its establishment as a kingdom by the Templars in 1139, becoming Europe's first nation-state. In addition, it was the longest-lived of the modern European colonial empires, spanning nearly six centuries, until its end in 1999 with the handover of Macau (China) or the grant of sovereignty to East Timor in 2002, making it the longest global empire in History. Portuguese conquistadors, navigators, explorers, scientists, monks, templars and knights, sailed and battled their way through Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia, expanding their kingdom in search for trade, settlement, wealth, slaves, spreading of Christianity, and to unlock the secrets of the earlier stages of Christendom. Thanks to this, Portugal held dominion over the sea lanes of the Indian and South Atlantic oceans for over a century, making its economic, military and political power the rival of any in Europe. Portuguese domain was present in Africa, within Morocco, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea and also in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Brazil, Canada, Greenland and several parts of Asia, including India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Japan, and several others. "The Portuguese were the first Europeans after the Dark Ages to engage in transcultural and transoceanic warfare, equipped with a blend of nautical knowledge, superior technology, incredible courage, very few men, and great swordsmanship that proved very efficient against the curved blades of the Turks and Moors. One must be aware that the Portuguese knew they were always outnumbered, a certainty that led them to employ all their courage and determination in the fights and battles they engaged. In many cases, just mentioning the Portuguese would distress an entire army or fleet, knowing the fierceness and bravery of the Portuguese warriors." — Rainer Daehnhardt (Professor, Historian, Writer.) ---------- Portuguese genes It was discovered, not so long ago, that the Lusitanians, ancestors of the Portuguese, owned two unique genes that are not found anywhere else in the world, except in Portugal. • A25-BIS-DR2 • A26-B38-DR13 A26-B38-DR13 is the most ancient gene of mankind and A25-BIS-DR2 is a very rare one also found only in Portugal and its descendants abroad.Thi was a discovery which brought a lot of attention in the world of genetics and racial studies. According to it, it was able to prove the Portuguese have the oldest genetic code in the world. “A33B14-DR1 is found in Mediterraneans, but not in Basques or Portuguese, reflecting the relative lack of contact with Mediterraneans common to both Basques and Portuguese; these latter groups also share one of the highest frequencies of the Rh phenotype. A25B18-DR15 is only found in Portugal among Europeans; it is also observed in white North Americans and in Brazilians (Imanishi et al. 1992b). It is probably a marker for the ancient Portuguese people in Europe and for people of Portuguese descent in America. A26-B38-DR13 is a specific Portuguese marker not found in any other part of the world, and it probably existed in the first western Iberians. Therefore, Portuguese is a relatively distinct population among Iberians according to our HLA data. They seem not to have had a significant contribution to their genetic pool from paleo-North Africans (A30-B18) and Mediterraneans (A33-B14) on the one hand, and on the other hand they show two specific haplotypes, A25-B18-DR2 and A26-B38DR13. Portuguese people have also maintained a certain degree of cultural and ethnic-specific characteristics since ancient times. Portuguese and Basques do not show the Mediterranean A33-B14-DR1 haplotype, suggesting a lower admixture with Mediterraneans; Spaniards and Algerians do have this haplotype in a relatively high frequency, indicating a more extensive Mediterranean genetic influence. The paleo-North African haplotype A30-B18-DR3 present in Basques, Algerians, and Spaniards is not found in Portuguese either. The Portuguese have a characteristic unique among world populations: a high frequency of HLA-A25-B18-DR15 and A26-B38-DR13, which may reflect a still detectable founder effect coming from ancient Portuguese.” Source: “Relatedness among Basques, Portuguese, Spaniards, and Algerian studied by HLA allelic frequencies and haplotypes.”
Most epic battles similar to the the fierce resistance of the spartans but unknown to the general population were the Siege of Chaul where 1200 portuguese won against 150,000 muslims, the Great Siege of Mazagăo where 800 portuguese defeated 105,000 muslims and the siege of Goa where 2000 portuguese resisted against 97,000 muslims... Crazy numbers over here. Also, everyone talks about the gaelic resistance to the romans but the romans took 2 centuries to conquer the territory which was occupied by celtic tribes back then, which now is Portugal. Portugal and Spain were the countries which spread the most the christian faith around the globe.
