Editing Tibullus (section)

{{Short description|Roman poet and writer of elegies (c. 55–c. 19 BC)}}
[[File:Tibullus.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]], ''Tibullus at Delia's'']]

'''Albius Tibullus''' ({{circa|55}} BC{{snd}}{{circa|19}} BC) was a [[Latin]] [[poet]] and writer of [[elegy|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#Praenomen|praenomen]]'' nor his birthplace is known, and his gentile name has been questioned. His status was probably that of a Roman ''[[Eques (ancient Rome)|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&nbsp;BC in the confiscations of [[Mark Antony]] and [[Augustus Caesar|Octavian]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Postgate |first=John Percival |date=1911 |title=Tibullus, Albius |editor=Chisholm, Hugh |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |volume=26 |edition=11th |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=930}}</ref><ref>Damer, E. Z. (2014). [https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=classicalstudies-faculty-publications "Gender Reversals and Intertextuality in Tibullus"]. ''Classical World'', 493–514.</ref>