Among the small but remarkable company of Roman elegiac poets of the first century B.C.--including Catullus, Gallus, Propertius, and Ovid--Albius Tibullus is often underestimated. He is treated as the...
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In the following excerpt, Sellar provides an overview of Tibullus, dismisses questions about his identity, discusses his love affairs, and compares and contrasts his contributions to the elegy with th...
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In the following essay, O 'Neil considers the question of Macer's identity in Tibullus 2.6 and contends that the poem refers not to a journey, but to a literary plan.
The sixth and co...
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In the following excerpt, Newman contends that Tibullus's popularity among ancient readers stemmed from reworking cliches, not in being sincere or autobiographical.
…Tibullus is a str...
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In the following essay, Musurillo describes Tibullus's portrayal of time as subtle, subjective, and blurred but notes that the poet shows much ability to control distinctions between past, pres...
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In the following essay, Michael provides an overview of Tibullus and his work, including analysis of his themes and the nature of his amorous love.
Tibullus wrote elegies, but not in the modern sen...
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In the following essay, Littlewood examines the structure of Tibullus's Book 1, describing it as harmonious and logical.
The last twenty-five years of Classical scholarship have seen such gr...
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In the following essay, Putnam asserts that Tibullus's simplicity is purposefully deceiving and that his understated stance disguises a "poetics of action."
Of the three surviv...
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In the following essay, Gaisser discusses Messalla, a Famous Roman general and patron of Tibullus, and contends that Tibullus 1.7 is best read as a tribute in which Messalla is equated with Osiris.
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In the following essay, Campbell argues that Tibullus has been incorrectly interpreted by many critics due to the use of faulty criteria in their evaluations.
One of the most frequent errors made b...
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In the following essay, Putnam provides an overview of Tibullus, considering his life and his poems' subjects, order, style, and meter.
Documentation for the life of Albius Tibullus is meage...
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In the following essay, Palmer contends that the strength of Tibullus's poetry results from his use of antitheses and syntheses.
Ever since 1905 when F. Jacoby's article on origins ap...
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In the following excerpt, Wheeler outlines the Greek influence on the Roman elegists in their erotic poetry.
The erotic teaching which pervades much of the work of Tibullus and Propertius and culmi...
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In the following essay, Cairns explains how Tibullus conveys information in his poems.
… [The conveyance of information] is a vital part of exposition, since without knowing the situation th...
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In the following essay, Lee describes some of the chief merits of Tibullus's poems.
The reader who comes to Tibullus from the love poetry of Ovid will be surprised to discover in parts of hi...
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In the following essay, Ullman analyzes two poems written by Horace to Albius and discusses the arguments against and for identifying Albius as Tibullus.
I. Carm. I. 33 and Epist. I. 4.
Albi, ne do...
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In the following excerpt, Radford presents evidence that Tibullus's Book 11 and the second elegy of Book IV were actually written by Ovid.
I. Gi; I. introduction. =~ Sintroduction.
In two ar...
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In the following essay, Burriss outlines Tibullus's religious beliefs and describes them as practical in nature and unsophisticated.
Tibullus was a poet, and so his attitude toward the gods ...
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In the following excerpt, Haight provides an overview of Tibullus, describing his life, background, poems, including those written to Marathus and to Sulpicia, and his role in the development of the L...
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In the following excerpt, Day examines the pastoral elements in Tibullus's elegies and the influence of other poets on their composition.
In an earlier chapter it was noticed that in the ele...
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In the following essay, Harte contends that Tibullus portrays nature as a gentle refuge from unrest, and that Nature is his real lover, not Delia or Nemesis.
If Vergil's preeminence as a poe...
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In the following essay, Lee explains why he considers Tibullus 1II, 19 to be the work of a skillful forger.
In considering whether or not this poem is genuine Tibullus we have only internal evidenc...
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Albius Tibullus
Critical Essay by W. Y. Sellar
