In the verdant heart of ancient Latium, where rolling hills cradled modest estates and the echoes of civil strife still lingered in the air, Albius Tibullus entered the world around 55 BCE. He would depart it far too soon, in 19 BCE, leaving behind a slender but radiant corpus of elegiac poetry that has captivated readers for over two millennia. Tibullus was no bombastic chronicler of empire or grand epic hero; inste…
“Glory is a shadow that follows virtue, now preceding it, now following behind, but always accompanying it.”
Neighbourhood:
Ancient & Classical Poets, Classical & Ancient Poets, Death & Mortality, Love Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Peace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in English as Horace, was born on 8 December 65 BC at Venusia, a Roman colony near the borderlands of Apulia and Lucania in southern Italy, and died at Rome on 27 November 8 BC. He lived through one of the most violent transformations in Roman history: the final collapse of the Republic, the civil wars that followed Julius Caesar’s assassination, and the consolidation of Augustus’ new…
“He has achieved every vote who has combined the useful with the agreeable, delighting the reader while instructing him.”
Neighbourhood:
Ancient & Classical Poets, Classical & Ancient Poets, Death & Mortality, Love Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Sensuality
