Abstract
This chapter focuses on the link between Calpurnius' poetics and his idea of bucolic genre. Much has been written concerning the features of his pastoral world and the extent of his debts to, and deviations from, the Virgilian model. Well known is Calpurnius' wide range of topics, far wider than in Virgil's Eclogues . The first feature that the chapter focuses on is that non-bucolic elements are constantly 'bucolicised', that is, integrated into a wholly bucolic context. Calpurnius' high consideration of his own status as a bucolic poet is plainly seen in his literary self-portrait. Most scholars agree that the shepherd Corydon, protagonist of the three 'political' Eclogues must represent the author himself: he praises the emperor in Ecl. 7 , he regrets the poverty of poets in Ecl. 4.58-72 , wishes brighter days under the new ruler, and, above all, establishes his own relationship with literary tradition. Keywords: bucolic tradition; Calpurnius Siculus; pastoral world; poetic programme; shepherd Corydon; Virgil
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