Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (64 BC – 8 AD) was a Roman general, author and patron of literature and art.
Family
Corvinus was the son of the politician who served as a consul in 61 BC, Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger, and his wife, Polla. Some dispute his parentage and claim another descendant of Marcus Valerius Corvus to be his father. Valeria, one of the sisters of Corvinus, married the Roman Politician Quintus Pedius (a maternal cousin to the Roman emperorAugustus). His great-nephew from this marriage was the deaf painter Quintus Pedius.
Corvinus married twice. His first wife was in Calpurnia, possibly the daughter of the Roman politician Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus. With Calpurnia, Corvinus had one daughter called Valeria Messalina, who married the Roman senator Titus Statilius Taurus III, another daughter, also called Valeria, who married the Roman consul Marcus Lollius, and a son called Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, who served as a Roman consul in 3 BC. His second son was Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus, consul in 20 AD, who is believed to have been born to a second unknown wife on the basis of a 23-year gap between the consulship of the elder son and the consulship of the second son. The writings of the poet Ovid (Book EIV.XVI:1-52) reveal that the second wife of Corvinus was a woman called Aurelia Cotta. Another fact supporting that Aurelia Cotta was the mother of Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus is that he was later adopted into the Aurelii Cottae.
Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus was a Roman Senator who lived in the Roman Empire in the 1st century.
Political career
In 46/47, Corvinus was a member of the Arval Brethren. From January to April in 58, he served as an ordinary consul with the Roman emperorNero and then from May to June in 58, as a suffect consul with Gaius Fonteius Capito. During his consulship, the Roman Senate paid him half a million sesterces as a subsidy for maintaining his senatorial census rank.
Messalla was probably the son of Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla. His year of office was employed in organising a general levy of the Italian nations against an expected invasion of the Gauls from both sides of the Alps. (Zonar, viii. 19 ; Oros. iv. 13; Fasti; comp. Polyb. ii. 23.)
Caesar recounts the first year of his campaigns in Gaul and Britain, AUC 696 (58 BC)
Significant Events:
All Gaul is Divided 0:04
Introducing Orgetorix 1:53
Helvetii Set Out 6:20
Caesar Reacts 8:45
Helvetii countermoves 11:41
Caesar calls up Legions 13:18
Battle at the Saone 15:34
Divico and Caesar 17:46
Legions run short of food 21:06
Divitiacus in tears before Caesar 29:02
Battle near Bibracte 34:16
Helvetii sue for peace 38:54
Gauls beg for help against the Germans 43:50
Caesar reaches out to Ariovistus 51:49
Fear in Roman camp 58:23
Caesar meets Ariovistus 1:08:00
Caesar and Ariovistus face off 1:17:30
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Caesar recounts the first year of his campaigns in Gaul and Britain, AUC 696 (58 BC)
Significant Events:
All Gaul is Divided 0:04
Introducing Orgetorix 1:53
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Caesar recounts the first year of his campaigns in Gaul and Britain, AUC 696 (58 BC)
Significant Events:
All Gaul is Divided 0:04
Introducing Orgetorix 1:53
Helvetii Set Out 6:20
Caesar Reacts 8:45
Helvetii countermoves 11:41
Caesar calls up Legions 13:18
Battle at the Saone 15:34
Divico and Caesar 17:46
Legions run short of food 21:06
Divitiacus in tears before Caesar 29:02
Battle near Bibracte 34:16
Helvetii sue for peace 38:54
Gauls beg for help against the Germans 43:50
Caesar reaches out to Ariovistus 51:49
Fear in Roman camp 58:23
Caesar meets Ariovistus 1:08:00
Caesar and Ariovistus face off 1:17:30
Caesar recounts the first year of his campaigns in Gaul and Britain, AUC 696 (58 BC)
Significant Events:
All Gaul is Divided 0:04
Introducing Orgetorix 1:53
Helvetii Set Out 6:20
Caesar Reacts 8:45
Helvetii countermoves 11:41
Caesar calls up Legions 13:18
Battle at the Saone 15:34
Divico and Caesar 17:46
Legions run short of food 21:06
Divitiacus in tears before Caesar 29:02
Battle near Bibracte 34:16
Helvetii sue for peace 38:54
Gauls beg for help against the Germans 43:50
Caesar reaches out to Ariovistus 51:49
Fear in Roman camp 58:23
Caesar meets Ariovistus 1:08:00
Caesar and Ariovistus face off 1:17:30
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Albius Tibullus (; c. 55 BC – 19 BC) 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.
Little is known about the life of Tibullus. There are only a few references to him by later writers and a short Life of doubtful authority. Neither his praenomen nor his birthplace is known, and his gentile name has been questioned. His status was probably that of a Roman eques (so the Life affirms), and he had inherited a considerable estate. Like Virgil, Horace and Propertius, he seems to have lost most of it in 41 BC in the confiscations of Mark Antony and Octavian.Scholar Francis Cairns regards Tibullus as "a good poet but not a great one"; Dorothea Wender similarly calls him a minor poet but argues there is "grace and polish and symmetry" to his work.
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Albius Tibullus (; c. 55 BC – 19 BC) 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.
Little is known about the life of Tibullus. There are only a few references to him by later writers and a short Life of doubtful authority. Neither his praenomen nor his birthplace is known, and his gentile name has been questioned. His status was probably that of a Roman eques (so the Life affirms), and he had inherited a considerable estate. Like Virgil, Horace and Propertius, he seems to have lost most of it in 41 BC in the confiscations of Mark Antony and Octavian.Scholar Francis Cairns regards Tibullus as "a good poet but not a great one"; Dorothea Wender similarly calls him a minor poet but argues there is "grace and polish and symmetry" to his work.
Caesar recounts the first year of his campaigns in Gaul and Britain, AUC 696 (58 BC)
Significant Events:
All Gaul is Divided 0:04
Introducing Orgetorix 1:53
Helvetii Set Out 6:20
Caesar Reacts 8:45
Helvetii countermoves 11:41
Caesar calls up Legions 13:18
Battle at the Saone 15:34
Divico and Caesar 17:46
Legions run short of food 21:06
Divitiacus in tears before Caesar 29:02
Battle near Bibracte 34:16
Helvetii sue for peace 38:54
Gauls beg for help against the Germans 43:50
Caesar reaches out to Ariovistus 51:49
Fear in Roman camp 58:23
Caesar meets Ariovistus 1:08:00
Caesar and Ariovistus face off 1:17:30
AD LVIII was a common year starting on Sunday link will display the full calendar of the Julian calendar At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Messalla or less freque...
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Tibullus
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- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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SUMMARY
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Albius Tibullus (; c. 55 BC – 19 BC) 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.
Little is known about the life of Tibullus. There are only a few references to him by later writers and a short Life of doubtful authority. Neither his praenomen nor his birthplace is known, and his gentile name has been questioned. His status was probably that of a Roman eques (so the Life affirms), and he had inherited a considerable estate. Like Virgil, Horace and Propertius, he seems to have lost most of it in 41 BC in the confiscations of Mark Antony and Octavian.Scholar Francis Cairns regards Tibullus as "a good poet but not a great one"; Dorothea Wender similarly calls him a minor poet but argues there is "grace and polish and symmetry" to his work.
Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (64 BC – 8 AD) was a Roman general, author and patron of literature and art.
Family
Corvinus was the son of the politician who served as a consul in 61 BC, Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger, and his wife, Polla. Some dispute his parentage and claim another descendant of Marcus Valerius Corvus to be his father. Valeria, one of the sisters of Corvinus, married the Roman Politician Quintus Pedius (a maternal cousin to the Roman emperorAugustus). His great-nephew from this marriage was the deaf painter Quintus Pedius.
Corvinus married twice. His first wife was in Calpurnia, possibly the daughter of the Roman politician Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus. With Calpurnia, Corvinus had one daughter called Valeria Messalina, who married the Roman senator Titus Statilius Taurus III, another daughter, also called Valeria, who married the Roman consul Marcus Lollius, and a son called Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, who served as a Roman consul in 3 BC. His second son was Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus, consul in 20 AD, who is believed to have been born to a second unknown wife on the basis of a 23-year gap between the consulship of the elder son and the consulship of the second son. The writings of the poet Ovid (Book EIV.XVI:1-52) reveal that the second wife of Corvinus was a woman called Aurelia Cotta. Another fact supporting that Aurelia Cotta was the mother of Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus is that he was later adopted into the Aurelii Cottae.