# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tibullus
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:43:06.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tibullus"
name: "Tibullus"
slug: "tibullus"
description: "A Roman elegist whose love poems survived two millennia while almost everything else about him—his first name, his birthplace, even whether all the verses credited to him are actually his—vanished."
tagline: "Roman poet and writer of elegies (c. 55 BC - 19 BC)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tibullus.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "-50"
deathDate: "-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "Literature"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Albius Tibullus was born around 55 BC, likely into equestrian rank, and inherited a substantial estate. In 41 BC, the confiscations ordered by Mark Antony and Octavian stripped away most of his land, a fate he shared with Virgil and Propertius. He turned to writing elegies, producing two books of poetry that secured his place among the Latin poets. He died around 19 BC. Later writers left only scattered references to him, and a brief biography of dubious reliability surfaced, but it couldn't recover his praenomen or birthplace. Even his family name has been questioned, leaving his work far more certain than the man who wrote it.