Le spectaculaire dans le Carmen Saeculare et les Odes d’Horace : étude de la pragmatique hymnique à l’époque augustéenne

Abstract

The Carmen Saeculare is a unique poem inside the latine litterary production, being both a civic and literary hymn. During the Ludi Saeculares of 17 B.C., it enhances the visual process of the ceremony, in order to construct an identity that could be shared by the whole Roman community, that of a city favoured by the gods, and whose power is the expression of the pax deorum found again. But reconsidered inside the Carmina, it takes part in the construction of the poetic persona of Horace, that of a uates who alone enjoys the divine favour.

Keywords

• hymn
• pax deorum
• Augustan age
• spectacular
• identity construction