Editing Adamastor (section)

==Legacy==
[[Image:Camões Os Lusíadas Page171 86r.jpg|thumb|The corresponding verses in the 1572 edition.]]

A popular gathering place in Lisbon is known by the name 'Adamastor' because of the large stone statue of the mythical figure which presides over the space, which is officially called the Miradouro de Santa Catarina.  The location offers visitors some of the most scenic views of the [[Tagus]] river, the [[25 de Abril Bridge]] and the [[Christ the King (Almada)|Cristo-Rei]] monument.

The Portuguese poet [[Fernando Pessoa]] included in his 1934 book ''Mensagem'' a number of verses dedicated to Adamastor, entitled ''O Mostrengo'' ("The Hideous Monster")

Adamastor, both the mythological character and the sculpture, are mentioned several times in [[José Saramago]]'s [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]]-winning novel, ''[[The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis]]'', and also in his historical novel ''[[Memorial do Convento]]'' (English language version: ''Baltasar and Blimunda'').

Adamastor has figured in much [[South African literature|poetry of the Cape]]. In ''The First Life of Adamastor'', a novella by [[André Brink]], the writer refashioned the Adamastor story from a 20th-century perspective.

Adamastor is also mentioned in the opera ''[[L'Africaine]]'' (1865) about Vasco da Gama by the composer [[Giacomo Meyerbeer]]. The slave Nelusko sings a song about Adamastor while he deliberately steers the ship into a storm and it sinks.

It is mentioned by [[Voltaire]] in his ''Essai sur la poésie épique''. It also appears in the works of [[Victor Hugo]]: ''[[Les Misérables]]'' (III, Marius, chap III) and in a poem dedicated to Lamartine (''[[Les Feuilles d'automne]]'', chap IX). [[Alexandre Dumas, père]] refers the giant six times:  ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo|Le Comte de Monte Cristo]]'' (chap. XXXI), ''[[Twenty Years After|Vingt ans après]]'' (chap. LXXVII), ''[[Georges (novel)|Georges]]'' (chap. I), ''Bontekoe, Les drames de la mer'', (chap. I), ''Causeries'' (chap. IX) and ''Mes Mémoires'' (chap. CCXVIII). [[Gaston Leroux]] also mentions it in ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (novel)|The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (chap. VI). [[Herman Melville]] mentions Adamastor and Camões in his ''Billy Budd'', at the end of Chapter VII.

Adamastor is also the name of a sauropod dinosaur, ''[[Angolatitan adamastor]]'', found in Angola, named by the paleontologist [[Octávio Mateus]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Mateus|first1=Octávio|last2=Jacobs|first2=Louis L.|last3=Schulp|first3=Anne S.|last4=Polcyn|first4=Michael J.|last5=Tavares|first5=Tatiana S.|last6=Buta Neto|first6=André|last7=Morais|first7=Maria Luísa|last8=Antunes|first8=Miguel T.|title=Angolatitan adamastor, a new sauropod dinosaur and the first record from Angola|journal=Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências|date=March 2011|volume=83|issue=1|pages=221–233|doi=10.1590/S0001-37652011000100012|pmid=21437383|doi-access=free}}</ref>