The ancient Germans in Os Sertões: Canudos and Teutoburg

Abstract

To explain the apparent contradiction between barbarism and civilization that involved the description of the sertanejo written in Os Sertões, Euclides da Cunha uses various elements of Classical Antiquity, for example, the narrative of the battle of Teutoburg. My research is to examine how and with what motivations writing Euclidean uses the classic descriptions of the ancient Germanic people and their conflicts with the Romans.