History Literature / AVozDosDeuses

* AmbiguousDisorder: Camala is clearly not good with people, passes lots of time in strange silences, can become very obssessed with things and people, and has violent emotional outbursts. It might be accidental, but this would be an excellent portrayal of someone in the autistic spectrum.

* MultiEthnicName: A Turdetanian warrior is named Mago, a Punic name. That he's meant to be a person of Punic ascendance is presumable, but never actually stated.

** The book also gives Quintus Pompeius as the praetor of Ulterior at the same time Quinctius is of Citerior, but chroniclers imply Quinctius was the praetor of Ulterior, not Citerior, as he had his base in Corduba (Citerior's capital was Tarraco). Pompeius is another problem in historiography, as it's believed Pompeius and him are the same person, and that only chronicler that mentions him at that point, Appian, messed up the sources (due likely to the similarity between ''Quintus'' and ''Quintius''). That year, the praetor of Citerior was the Consul Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, which in the novel is replaced by his brother Lucius in a later date.

** Only the classical ''aquila'' is mentioned as a Roman standard, probably because it is the most known in pop culture. If it became so popular, however, it is probably because Gaius Marius made it the only Roman standard, as previously there were fifth kinds of animal standards of which the eagle was just one (the rest, if you are curiious were wolf, ox-man, horse and boar). As this novel is set before the Marian reforms, the emphasis given to the eagle sign feels a bit anachronistic.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Statues of gods are virtually everywhere in the novel, with Tongoenabiagus, Endovelicus and Ataegina having their own distinctive idols. In real life, Hispanic gods were aniconic, meaning that their worshippers made no artwork of them, the only exceptions being when and where Carthaginian or Roman influence led them to adopt their style of religious art. Case on point: the author seems to have based the Bracari statue of Tongoenabiagus on the real life equivalent from Fonte do Ídolo in Braga, but this piece is dated actually much later, from the time of Augustus, when Hispania had been fully conquered and there was a mixing of native and Roman religion happening around (in fact, the statue itself has inscriptions in Latin).

* ShownTheirWork: The novel is admirably well researched, and is possibly the single most faithful portrayal of the Lusitanian Wars in Spanish and Portuguese fiction. For starters, it miraculously avoids the cliché of portraying the Lusitanians with falcatas, which is comparable to the EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana trope in those countries.

''A Voz dos Deuses'' ("The Voice of the Gods"), sometimes subtitled ''Memórias de um companheiro de armas de Viriato'' ("Memories of a comrade-in-arms to Viriathus"), is a 1984 HistoricalFiction novel penned by Portuguese journalist and writer João Aguiar. It was his very second novel and possibly one of his best popular works.

The book is possibly more known by his 1993 editions in Spain, where it was published under the title ''Viriato, Iberia contra Roma'' ("Viriathus, Iberia vs. Rome").

* CoolOldGuy: Eunois, the Greek merchant from Gadir, does nothing but help Tongius from the point is introduced.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Viriathus is rendered generally in a very ideal heroic way, and some of the nastiest points of his career are changed so he has no fault on them. The novel's version of Astolpas, for instance, commits suicide in a HeroicSacrifice, thus avoiding the ugly situation of Viriathus executing his own father-in-law as it is mentioned in sources.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Bedunus, Tongius' master of arms, dies at the beginning of the story just when he is found by Viriathus.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Camala and Tongetamus hook up, but being two people of very different positions, personalities, cultures, mindset and generally everything else, as well as two rather messed up people, the marriage doesn't last (and Tongetamus ends up his life).

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Camala and Tongetamus hook up, but being two people of very different positions, personalities, cultures, mindset and generally everything else, as well as two rather messed up people, the marriage doesn't last and Tongetamus takes his life.

* CooldOldGuy: Eunois, the Greek merchant from Gadir, does nothing but help Tongius from the point is introduced.

* ShownTheirWork: The novel is admirably well researched, and is possibly the single most faithful portrayal of the Lusitanian Wars in Spanish and Portuguese fiction. For starters, it miraculously avoids the cliché of portraying the Lusitanians with falcatas, which is comparable to the EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana trope in those countries.

The novel takes the shape of the written memories of Tongius, great priest of the god Endovelicus in the cities of Arcobriga and Meribriga, whose life comes to its end. Raised in the merchant tribe of the Cynetes, Tongius was the son of Tongetamus, a disgraced Lusitanian-Gallecian warrior, and during his very adolescence he found himself embracing his warrior heritage against the arrogance of Rome. After a tenure in the marauding army of Curius and Apuleius, he joins the then-unknown Viriathus in the birth of a true rebellion, the UsefulNotes/LusitanianWars, becoming in the process part of a legend that still sounds in the lands of Portugal and Spain.

The book is possibly more known by his 1993 editions in Spain, where it was published under the rather odd title ''Viriato, Iberia contra Roma'' ("Viriathus, Iberia vs. Rome").

** Historical sources don't detail the kind of place the Lusitanians were trapped in during the battle of Tribola, but analysts have traditionally considered it an orographic point, not an abandoned city. Besieging fortified positions was a specialty of Roman military, so a RagtagBunchOfMisfits huddled in a ruined fort would have had basically no chance to march out and build a full-fledged formation under their very noses. The novel justifies it by having the legions grabbing the IdiotBall firmly and only camping around the city without actually mounting a siege.
** The novel turns Quintus Servilius Caepio into a Scipio of all things, apparently interpreting his ''cognomen'' as a corruption of Scipio. In real life, he is well confirmed to be a member of the Servilia ''gens'' and completely unrelated to the Scipios.
* BattleCouple: Again, Curius and Apuleius, although they are discreet about it and don't fight literally together in the frontlines as it is often expected.

The book is possibly more known by his late 2005 reeditions in Spain, where it was published under the rather odd title ''Viriato, Iberia contra Roma'' ("Viriathus, Iberia vs. Rome").

* BadassGay: Curius and Apuleius are lovers, typical of Celtic warrior culture.

''A Voz dos Deuses'' ("The Voice of the Gods"), sometimes subtitled ''Memórias de um companheiro de armas de Viriato'' ("Memories of a comarede-in-arms to Viriathus"), is a 1984 HistoricalFiction novel penned by Portuguese journalist and writer João Aguiar. It was his very second novel and possibly one of his best popular works.

The novel takes the shape of the written memories of Tongius, great priest of the god Endovelicus in the cities of Arcobriga and Meribriga, whose life comes to its end. Raised in the merchant tribe of the Cynetes, Tongius was the son of Tongetamus, a disgraced Lusitanian-Gallecian warrior, and during his very adolescence he found himself embracing his warrior heritage against the arrogance of Rome. After a tenure in the marauding army of Curius and Apuleius, he joins the then-unknown Viriathus in the born of a true rebellion, in the process becoming part of a legend that still sounds in the lands of Portugal and Spain.

It has a sequel of sorts in the form of Aguiar's 1994 novel ''A hora de Sertório'', whose events are directly connected to it.

** The battle of Tribola is turned here into a siege instead of a land battle. Historical sources don't detail the exact way the Lusitanians were trapped before Viriathus' intervention, but it was probably not in a fortified settlement as portrayed in the novel.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Viriathus is dead and his army is submitted, though Scipio fulfills his promise and gives them peace and land. Tongius himself suffers somewhat of an existencial crisis, but he eventually does well in life, becoming a Roman citizen and the next priest of Endovelicus.]]

* BattleCouple: Curius and Apuleius.