Carmina Imperialia: as veleidades poéticas dos Césares

Abstract

Due to the political goals of official patronage, or because of regular contact with normally refined and cultured courts, the poetic taste of the Roman emperors has shaped, both by co optation and encouragement of adulation, the literary production of the intellectuals of their time. Therefore, the study of the poems attributed to the Caesars allows the understanding of the trials and tribulations of the Roman imperial literary production.