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2014
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Marie Ledentu, « Labor poétique et res gestae Caesaris : poésie et refondation dans les Géorgiques », Vita Latina, ID : 10670/1.834hyo
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This article aims to connect the Georgics to its historical and political context in the thirties B. C. by showing how Virgil, witness of the civil war and the bloody aftermaths of Caesar’s murder, builds in his didactic poem a poetic curse which highlights the reference to Ennius and a meditation on the power. In the immediacy of Actium and Octavian’s victory, the poet contributes to outline the conditions of a renewed foundation as the one that Augustus will realize during his principate. Through the dialogue between Virgil, Maecenas and Octavian, the Georgics give responses to the new subject of the res gestae Caesaris. This article, in sum, analyzes some of the modes by which is expressed the interaction between literature and politics in a moment of transition, the triumviral era.