He holds a PhD in Latin Literature (1990) and a Master\u2019s degree in Neo-Latin Epic Poetry in Portugal (1984), both from the University of Coimbra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A retired professor from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (since 2019), he is an Honorary Professor at the Polytechnic University of Macau and a Full Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. He has taught at various institutions, including the University of Aveiro, the University of Coimbra, the Portuguese Catholic University, and the Polytechnic University of Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently, he is a Guest Specialist Professor at Shanghai International Studies University and has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Poitiers, Hamburg, G\u00f6ttingen, Macau, and Tianjin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He served as Director of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (2006\u20132013) and Director of the Pedagogical and Scientific Centre for the Portuguese Language at the Macau Polytechnic Institute (2013\u20132018). He was also President of the International Association of Lusitanists (2021\u20132024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is a researcher at the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies at the University of Coimbra and at the Inter-University Centre for Cam\u00f5es Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the journal Orientes do Portugu\u00eas<\/em>, published by the Polytechnic University of Macau and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His work has been recognised with numerous awards, including the Jacinto do Prado Coelho Prize (2006) for his book Caminhos do Amor em Roma<\/em> and the Medal of Cultural Merit, awarded by the Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n He has published 32 books, including essays, translations, and poetry, along with over 200 articles or book chapters in internationally circulated journals and academic publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among his translations, Virgil\u2019s Aeneid<\/em>\u2014published in Portugal and Brazil\u2014and several works by Ovid, such as Ars Amatoria, Amores, Heroides<\/em>, and Remedia Amoris<\/em>, stand out.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He holds a PhD in Latin Literature (1990) and a Master\u2019s degree in Neo-Latin Epic Poetry in Portugal (1984), both from the University of Coimbra. A retired professor from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (since 2019), he is an Honorary Professor at the Polytechnic University of Macau and a […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":22061,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"date":["2020-11-10"],"email":"","show_email":true,"interest":"literatura latina, em especial poesia do s\u00e9c. I a.C. e I d.C.; literatura portuguesa, com destaque para Lu\u00eds de Cam\u00f5es; ex\u00edlio em literatura; epopeia","interest_en":"Latin literature, especially poetry from the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD; Portuguese literature, especially Lu\u00eds de Cam\u00f5es; exile in literature; epic","hyperlink":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3390-1406","footnotes":""},"ac_class":[118],"ac_bond":[120],"ac_section":[144],"class_list":["post-20646","ac_scholars","type-ac_scholars","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ac_class-classe-de-letras","ac_bond-efetivos","ac_section-2-a-seccao-filologia-e-linguistica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/20646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ac_scholars"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/20646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23394,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/20646\/revisions\/23394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ac_class","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_class?post=20646"},{"taxonomy":"ac_bond","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_bond?post=20646"},{"taxonomy":"ac_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_section?post=20646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}