We are in 29 B.C.E.: Octave, the future emperor, has just gained control of the world thanks to his victory over Antoine and Cleopatra, and Virgile publishes his Georgics, dedicated to Mécène, a close friend of Octave. The content of the four songs, as announced in the first verses, leaves waiting for a treaty of agriculture. Virgile therefore seems to support Octavian's efforts in favour of Italian agriculture and encourage the Romans to become peasants like him. But Virgile is a poet, perhaps the greatest Latin poet, and the Georgics are much more than just a treatise. They offer, with a breath and a rarely equalized magnitude, a moral based on effort and work as conditions for the elevation of man, at the same time as a reflection on his place in nature. Like any great work, they also question the reader about their meaning and the interpretation that it is possible to bring to them.