Tibullus

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Tibullus was a prominent Roman elegiac poet of the Augustan era, best known for his refined, melancholic love poetry and idealization of rural simplicity.

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Label Occurrences
Tibullus canonical 9
Albius Tibullus 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin author
Roman poet
elegiac poet
human
associatedWith Messalla Corvinus
contemporaryOf Horace
Propertius
Virgil
countryOfCitizenship Ancient Rome
linked to: Roman Antiquity
dateOfBirth circa 55 BCE
dateOfDeath circa 19 BCE
deathPlace likely Rome
era Augustan age
floruit late 1st century BCE
gender male
genre elegy
love poetry
hasPartInCorpus poems addressed to Delia
poems addressed to Nemesis
influenced Ovid
later Latin elegists
influencedBy Catullus
Propertius
knownFor idealization of rural life
rejection of wealth and war in favor of simplicity and love
languageOfWorkOrName Latin
literaryMovement Augustan poetry
literaryStyle melancholic
refined
literaryTheme anti‑militarism
faithfulness in love
love
pacifism
poverty and simplicity
rural simplicity
mentionedIn Ovid's Amores
Ovid's Tristia
linked to: Tristia
notableWork Corpus Tibullianum
Elegies, Book 1
linked to: Elegies

Elegies, Book 2
linked to: Elegies
occupation poet
partOf Latin elegiac tradition
patron Messalla Corvinus
placeOfActivity Italian countryside
Rome
socialClass equestrian order
styleComparedWith Ovid
Propertius

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Amores influencedBy Tibullus
Catullus influenced Tibullus
Propertius contemporaryOf Tibullus
Propertius rankedAlongside Tibullus
Gallus influenced Tibullus
Messalla Corvinus patronOf Albius Tibullus
linked to: Tibullus
Messalla Corvinus associatedWith Albius Tibullus
linked to: Tibullus
Elegies (Propertius) contemporaryOf Tibullus
subject linked to: Elegies
Sextus Propertius contemporaryOf Tibullus
subject linked to: Sextus