This chapter will consider Campos’s engagement with the Western tradition through his translations of the Homeric epic (Mênis: A ira de Aquiles and A Ilíada de Homero), his translations and commentary of Goethe’s Faust (Deus e o diabo no “Fausto” de Goethe), his translations of Dante’s Paradiso (Pedra e luz na poesia de Dante), as well as his own creative texts, Finismundo: a última viagem and A máquina do mundo repensada, the latter of which draws from Camões’s epic, The Lusiads.