Classes On Portugal / Lisang na Portugal

Lusus, engraving in an 1880's Os Lusíadas  ("The Lusiads") Portuguese national epic poem. In the previous posts I made some references to Lusitania and Lusitanians, not clearing what I was talking about (since it was unrelevant to the posts' issue and extemporaneous to it). To clear it up in this one, Lusitania was a region associated to the Lusitanian people from mostly what is now central Portugal (supposedly named after a patriarch, son to god Bacchus called Lusus or Lysias), and after Roman conquest the name of a province of Lusitania which included all Portugal south of the River Durius (Douro), the Spanish Extremadura Autonomous Community and the Province of Salamanca and the comarca of Sayago, and so in the Renaissance with the fashion of looking for ancient cultures and history for references, Lusitania became an alternate poetic name for Portugal and Lusitanian or Luso for Portuguese, etc.. This poetic synonymia only began in the 15th century and only got pop...

In t he 15th century, frequent Italian forger Annio da Viterbo (Anio de Viterbo in Portuguese) listed Gorgoris/Gargoris and Abidis/Habidis/Habis among the legendary kings of Spain (meaning the Iberian Peninsula). In his listing, Viterbo turned into Iberian mythological kings: 1) the biblical grandson of Noah, Tubal; 2) all names of places he could attribute to a person which they would be named after, like Iberus after Iberia, Idubeda or Eubalda after the chains of mountains in Spain called Idubedan Mounts by the Romans including Moncayo, Sierra de Molina, Sierra de Cazorla and montes de Oca, Brigus after the many pre-Roman settlements with the suffix -briga in the name, Tagus like the river, Betus Turdetanus after the Baetis river and the Baetica region or Andalusia and the Turdetanian people, Hispalis after the Roman name for Seville, Hispan after Hispania, Sicorus the mythic father of Sicanus the early settler of Sicily and supposed namesake of the Sicoris as the Romans called the S...