Marcus Furius Bibaculus (103 BC? BC), was a
Roman
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poet, who flourished during the last century of the
Republic.
Life
According to
Jerome
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, he was born at
Cremona, and probably lived to a great age. He wrote satirical poems after the manner of
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus (; 84 - 54 BCE), often referred to simply as Catullus (, ), was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, focusing on personal life rather than classical heroes. His ...
, whose bitterness he rivaled, according to
Quintilian (''Instit.'' x.i.196), in his iambics. He even attacked
Augustus
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(and perhaps
Caesar
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), who treated the matter with indifference. He was also author of prose ''
Lucubrationes'' and perhaps of an epic poem on Caesar's
Gallic Wars
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(''Pragmatia Belli Gallici'').
Otto Ribbeck
Johann Carl Otto Ribbeck (23 July 1827, in Erfurt – 18 July 1898, in Leipzig) was a German classical scholar. His works are mostly confined to criticisms of Latin poetry and to classical character sketches.
Biography
He was born at Erfurt in S ...
attributes to him one of the shorter poems usually assigned to
Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 7021 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: th ...
. It is doubtful whether he is the person ridiculed by
Horace (''
Satires
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or ...
,'' ii.5.40) and whether he is identical with the ''turgidus Alpinus'' (''Satires,'' i.10.36), the author of an ''Aethiopis'' dealing with the life and death of
Memnon
In Greek mythology, Memnon (; Ancient Greek: Μέμνων means 'resolute') was a king of Aethiopia and son of Tithonus and Eos. As a warrior he was considered to be almost Achilles' equal in skill. During the Trojan War, he brought an army t ...
and of a poem on the
Rhine
), Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
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. Some critics, on the ground that Horace would not have ventured to attack so dangerous an adversary, assume the existence of a poet whose real name was Furius (or Cornelius) Alpinus.
Bibaculus was ridiculed for his high-flown and exaggerated style and manner of expression. Fragments of his work can be found in L. Müller's edition of Catullus' work in the Teubner Series (1870).
See also
*
Roman poetry
The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus, the earliest surviving examples of Latin literature, are estimated to have been composed around 205-184 BC.
History
Scholars conven ...
Footnotes
Citations
* This work in turn cites:
**Weichert, “De M. Furio Bibaculo,” in his ''Poetarum Latinorum Reliquiae'' (1830)
External links
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103 BC births
1st-century BC deaths
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1st-century BC Roman poets
Bibaculus
Year of death unknown
Writers from Cremona
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