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.19 BC). It contains ten poems written in Latin elegiac 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 four great love-elegists of ancient Rome (the other three were Cornelius Gallus, Propertius, and Ovid), the rhetorician Quintillian praised him for being "the most polished and elegant".[2] Modern critics have found him "enigmatic"[3] and psychologically complex.[4]
Tibullusbook1 is the first of two books of poems by the Roman poet Tibullus (c. 56–c.19 BC). It contains ten poems written in Latin elegiac couplets...
the shortness of the book compared with Tibullusbook1 has led some scholars to suppose that it was left unfinished on Tibullus's death, yet the careful...
of Tibullus. About 30 BC Messalla was dispatched by Augustus to Gaul to quell a rising in Aquitania and restore order in the country, and Tibullus may...
4th books of Tibullus. Many poems in these books were clearly not written by Tibullus but by others, perhaps part of a circle under Tibullus' patron Messalla...
poems in the 3rd book of Tibullus, its date and authorship are disputed, with scholars disagreeing whether it was written by Tibullus or another member...
couplets and included in volume 3 of the collected works of Tibullus (Tibullus 3.8–3.12 = Tibullus 4.2–4.6). The five poems concern a love affair between a...
preserved as part of a collection of poetry, book 3 of the Corpus Tibullianum, initially attributed to Tibullus. The poems are addressed to Cerinthus. Cerinthus...
book I poem 3 of Tibullus's elegies, Tisiphone, unkempt with fierce snakes instead of hair, chases impious souls here and there in Tartarus. In Book VI...
they were born on the island of Delos. The name was used by Roman poet Tibullus as the pseudonym of his lover Plania in very popular love poems and thanks...
conventions of the elegiac genre developed by Tibullus and Propertius. Elegy originates with Propertius and Tibullus, but Ovid is an innovator in the genre....
The foremost elegiac writers of the Roman era were Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid. Catullus, a generation earlier than the other three, influenced...
Michigan / Skira. Lee-Stecum, Parshia (1998). Powerplay in Tibullus: reading Elegies book one. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-63083-2...
relation to Statilia Messalina, the third wife of Nero. The poet Albius Tibullus mentions that Messallinus was admitted into the quindecimviri sacris faciundis...
of Ariadne (the weaving goddess) [...]. Wedeck, Harry E., ed. (1963). "Tibullus". Classics of Roman Literature. Translated by Elton, C. A. Lanham, Maryland:...
influence of personal experiences in ancient authors such as Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius in their homoerotic poetry. The term "homoerotic" carries...
associated the term with the southern coastal region. c. 30 BCE: Tibullus, Tibullus and Sulpicia: The Poems: "Why tell how the white dove sacred to the...
numerical phenomena have been found in other authors. For example, in Tibullusbook 2, poems 1 + 6 = 2 + 5 = 3 + 4 = 144 lines. A dialogue between Tityrus and...
Bibliotheca historica, 4.6.1; Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.31.2; Tibullus, Poems, 1.4.7; Scholia on Theocritus, 1. 21 Kerenyi, Gods of the Greeks...
parodies the opening lines of the Aeneid in Amores 1.1.1–2, and his summary of the Aeneas story in Book 14 of the Metamorphoses, the so-called "mini-Aeneid"...
For poetry, recommended authors (inexhaustibly) include: Ovid, Martial, Tibullus, and Catullus, rather than poets such as Horace, Juvenal, or Lucan. For...
differences between Lygdamus and the genuine poems of Tibullus, making it clear that Tibullus could not be the author. Voss, who took a poor view of...
Argentarius. Notable Roman erotic poets included Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, Martial and Juvenal, and the anonymous Priapeia. Some later Latin...
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