Tibullus biography
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Tibullus book 1
Book of ten Latin love poems written by Tibullus, c. 27 BC
Tibullus book 1 is the first of two books of poems by the Roman poet Tibullus (c. 56–c BC). It contains ten poems written in Latinelegiac couplets, and is thought to have been published about 27 or 26 BC.[1]
Five of the poems (1, 2, 3, 5, 6) speak of Tibullus's love for a woman called Delia; three (4, 8 and 9) of his love for a boy called Marathus. The seventh is a poem celebrating the triumph in 27 BC of Tibullus's patron Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, following his victory in a military campaign against the Aquitanians. In 1, 5, and 10 he also writes of his deep love for life in the countryside and his dislike of war, a theme which both begins and ends the book.
The elegies of Tibullus are famous for the beauty of their Latin. Of the fyra great love-elegists of ancient Rome (the other three were Cornelius Gallus, Propertius, and Ovid), the rhetorician Quintillian praised him for being
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Albius Tibullus (Tibullus)
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Tibullus
Roman poet and writer of elegies (c. 55–c. 19 BC)
Albius Tibullus (c.&#;55 BC&#;&#; c.&#;19 BC) was a Latinpoet and writer of elegies. His first and second books of poetry are extant; many other texts attributed to him are of questionable origins.
Little is known about the life of Tibullus. There are only a few references to him by later writers and a short Life of doubtful authority. Neither his praenomen nor his birthplace is known, and his gentile name has been questioned. His status was probably that of a Roman eques (so the Life affirms), and he had inherited a considerable estate. Like Virgil and Propertius, he seems to have lost most of it in 41&#;BC in the confiscations of Mark Antony and Octavian.[1][2]
Life
[edit]Tibullus's chief friend and patron was Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, himself an orator and poet as well as a statesman and a commander. Messalla, like Gaius Maecenas, was at the centre of a literary circl