Tibullus
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Albius Tibullus was a Latin poet and writer of elegies. His first and second books of poetry are extant; many other texts attributed to him are of questionable origins.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Tibullus at Delia's
Sulpicia
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Sulpicia is believed to be the author, in the first century BCE, of six short poems written in Latin which were published as part of the corpus of Albius Tibullus's poetry. She is one of the few femal
Tibullus
…the meaning is not clear. Although there are some dissenting voices, most scholars accept that these six poems are genuinely written by a female poet, Sulpicia, the only Roman female poet whose work has survived. Their frank and passionate outpourings are reminiscent of Catullus. The style and metrical handling…
This fresco from Pompeii, c. AD 50–79, is traditionally identified as Sappho.