That work "A Lament for his Boy" is preceded by an ode to the god of slumber entitled "Sleep."  
This author wrote a collection of 32 poems that ends with an elegy on his adopted son.  That work "A Lament for his Boy" is preceded by an ode to the god of slumber entitled "Sleep."  That collection also featured a title that would later be adapted by Poliziano to characterize an entire genre of occasional verse.  Another work by author, though left unfinished at his death, gives an account of a hero's childhood in Thessaly and concealment on the island of Scyros, it is called the Achilleid.  In the Purgatorio Dante has the shade of this man explain that he secretly embraced Christianity after reading his fellow poet, Virgil's Eclogues.  His greatest work, divided into twelve books depicts the institution of the Nemean Games and focuses on the brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, who hail from the title city.  For 10 point, identify this court poet under the Domitian, the author of the Silvae and the Thebaid.
This author wrote a collection of 32 poems that ends with an elegy on his adopted son.  
Publius Papinius Statius