As Musas, o poeta e o princeps

In this article, I investigate the connections between the Muses/Camenae, the poet and Augustus in Horace’s Odes 3.4, considering the construction of memory through poetry, in association with themes such as politics, war and poetic composition. The paper examines how Horace constructs his persona as a poet of the Muses/Camenae, worthy of singing high lyric about public themes in praise of the princeps in the centre of power. The study demonstrates that the celebration of the new Augustan Age at the Pierian Grotto, in Odes 3.4, marks a crucial point in the poet’s trajectory as vates and princeps of Roman lyric in the Odes.