Monumenti più forti del fuoco. Incompiuto, immortalità e potere nella poesia augustea

This paper aims to define the dialectic between “finished” and “unfinished” in the works of Virgil and Horace. A final and shorter section will be devoted to Ovid. The dialectic finished/unfinished will be analysed within the framework of three variously interrelated topics: its relationship to literary forms and models (especially from Hellenistic poetry); the author’s self-representation and his projection of “immortality”; the context of receptions among readers and the relationship with political power (first and foremost, with Augustus).