Calpurnius Siculus

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

Practically nothing is known about his person except what can be deduced from his works. Seven eclogues ( shepherd's poems ) have survived from him , which are based in many respects on the model of the Bucolica Virgil . As with Virgil, some of the eclogues (2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th) depict scenes from an idealized pastoral life, while others (1st, 4th and 7th) allude to political issues, with Calpurnius Siculus in the form of praise Nero as the ideal ruler. Under him (comparable to Virgil's famous 4th Eclogue) the "golden age" of eternal peace will supposedly return. A patron, Meliboeus (a traditional name of pastoral poetry), in which some scholars have seen Gaius Calpurnius Piso , the later leader of a conspiracy against Nero, is also mentioned. Similar literary glorifications of the rule of the young Nero can also be found in the Apocolocyntosis attributed to Seneca and the anonymously transmitted hermit poems .

Text editions and translations

  • Dietmar Korzeniewski (ed.): Shepherd poems from Neronian times. Titus Calpurnius Siculus and the Hermits Poems . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1971, ISBN 3-534-04627-7 (critical edition with translation)
  • Maria Assunta Vinchesi: Calpurnii Siculi eclogae . Felice Le Monnier, Firenze 2014, ISBN 978-88-00-81298-6 (critical edition with Italian translation and commentary)

literature

Overview display

  • Michael von Albrecht : History of Roman literature from Andronicus to Boethius and its continued effect . Volume 2. 3rd, improved and expanded edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026525-5 , pp. 836-840

Comments

  • Burghard Schröder: Carmina non quae nemorale resultent: a commentary on the 4th Eclogue of Calpurnius Siculus . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-631-43096-5 .
  • Beate Fey-Wickert: Calpurnius Siculus: Commentary on the 2nd and 3rd Eclogue . WVT, Trier 2003, ISBN 3-88476-557-4 .
  • Gloria Becker, Titus Calpurnius Siculus. Commentary on the 5th and 6th Eclogue . WVT, Trier 2013, ISBN 978-3-86821-410-9 .

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