Domitius Marsus

Domitius Marsus was a poet from the time of the Augustan, ie from the last decades before the Christian era, during the reign of Emperor Augustus. Ovid calls him in a catalog of contemporary poets ( Ov, Pont.IV, 16.5 ) in the first place. So Marsus must have been about the same age as Ovid.

What is known about his life a little, so we know from his work only from fragments. His main work was epigrams. He also wrote other seals, an epic poem and a prose work.

Marsus ' epigrams were, as far as we can tell, mostly aggressive and critical. The great Roman epigrams Martial refers to Marsus.

Reported is a tribute to the poet Tibullus.

Marsus speaks of the deceased in the year 19 BC Virgil. The young Tibullus, speak of about 20 years younger than Tibullus, thus as the great epic poet must have died about the same time, so that the poem makes sense. Marsus complains about the lack of simultaneously elegiac and epic poet, a sign that Augustus with the golden era of Roman poetry will come to an end.

• Author
• Literature ( Latin)
• Antiquity ( literature)
• Roman
• Born in the 1st century BC
• Died in the 1st century BC or 1st century
• Man