Calpúrnio Sículo: um poeta a serviço do império

Abstract

The present paper is a study about the work of the poet Titus Calpurnius Siculus, author of the seven Bucolics. From his entire work, we have chosen only three poems, I, IV and VII, that have brought about politic themes, which have dealt with historical events that have the Nero’s era. The poet introduces this monarch’s governmental programme during his first quinquennium in action such as justice, liberty, safety and peace. Calpurnius sees in Nero a new Augustus. The poems introduce a national dimension, whose objective was to serve as a cause for Rome, bringing up virgilian themes which have led up to the current events of his own era.