| Summary: | <p class="Pa5">This work was born from a question: what is the place of the poet in society? In order to build a response to this question, I analyze here in this essay Camões’ character Bacchus, present in <em>Os Lusiadas</em>. Such investigation involves reading that character as an allegory of the poet adrift, as well as a poet thrown out of The Platonic Republic; Bacchus finds himself, after having his opinion fully rejected by the olympian gods in the first <em>consilio </em>of Camões’ epic, exiled physically as well as politically and intellectually. The choice of this character is justified since, in Camões epic, this god represents a counterforce to the official discourse of the sixteenth-century Portugal, which aims always to praise the Portuguese historical glory.</p>
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