Elegiae
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Tibullus
Tibullus
c. 55 BCE–c. 19 BCE · Rome
Albius Tibullus (c. 55-19 BCE) was a Roman elegiac poet of the Augustan age, admired for the polished and graceful style of his love elegies, which celebrate the pleasures of the countryside, peace, and love over war and ambition. He is counted among the leading Latin love poets alongside Propertius and Ovid.
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Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
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