La politisation du Temps dans la Poésie Latine : de Catulle à Ovide

Abstract

Condemned to live under a tyrannical regime that left them little choice apart from being quiet or politically correct, the Augustan poets, in Catullus’ wake, took refuge in the so-called cacozelia latens, or double writing. All the fields of thought are affected by the secret fight they carried on against a power well aware of it, and not above forging texts of its own. An extreme attention is so required from the readers, as illustrated by a study of the theme of time in this poetry.