Titus Calpurnius Siculus

Titus Calpurnius Siculus was a Roman poet in the 1st century AD, the time of Nero.

About his person Virtually nothing is known except what can be inferred from his works. Are obtaining from him seven Eclogues ( pastoral poems), which are based in many ways the model of Virgil's Bucolics. As with Virgil describe some of the Eclogues (2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th ) scenes from an idealized pastoral life, while others ( 1, 4 and 7 ) allude to political issues, Calpurnius Siculus in the form of a eulogy Nero as an ideal ruler. Under him ( the famous fourth Eclogue of Virgil comparable) claims it will return the "Golden Age " perpetual peace. Is also known as a patron, Meliboeus ( a traditional name of pastoral poetry ), have seen in which some scientists Gaius Calpurnius Piso, who later became the leader of a conspiracy against Nero. Similar literary glorification of the reign of the young Nero can also be found in the Seneca attributed Apocolocyntosis and the anonymous traditional hermit poems.