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♀️ Feminist Friday ♀️ Sulpicia Sulpicia was a Latin poetes..
🕑 Added 2022-12-30 12:00:06 +0000 UTC ♀️ Feminist Friday ♀️ Sulpicia Sulpicia was a Latin poetess from the time of Emperor Augustus. She was probably a niece of, among others, Servius Sulpicius and Valerius Messala Corvinus, to whose literary circle she belonged. She is known for her poems in the fourth book of the Corpus Tibullianum. Presumably Sulpicia is the only poet of Latin literature whose verses we possess. Where and when she was born, who she was and when she died, we do not know. She must have lost her father as a chil d, making her uncle Valerius Messala Corvinus (64 BC-13 AD) guardian over her. He may have been her mother Valeria's brother. Messala had some fame as a warlord. He also had a literary circle around him, which included poets such as Tibullus and Cornutus. This circle was quite special, because most of the poets belonged to the group of the emperor's confidant at the time, Augustus. This confidant was Maecenas. Today we still call a generous art giver a Maecenas. We can assume that Sulpicia knew both Tibullus and Cornutus and that she may have come into contact with poetry in a playful way through her uncle's circle. Perhaps thanks to those informal contacts and the good upbringing she received through her uncle, she eventually ventured to write a few poems herself. The barely forty verses of Sulpicia that came to us through Tibullus are written in simple elegiac disticha. The six Sulpicia poems are in the fourth book of Elegies of the Corpus Tibullianum. Its chronology has been disputed. Emotionally yet free-spirited, Sulpicia addresses a certain Cerinthus who has broken up with her. This was probably a pseudonym for Cornutus by the way. In that case, Tibullus would certainly have been able to monitor the situation closely. He or Cornutus have written some answers to Sulpicia's rhymes in the same book. Its style contrasts strongly with the girl's somewhat simple poetry. Her rhymes seem to come straight out of a diary... Apart from a few papyrus fragments or other fragments, these are in any case the only lyrical outpourings of a woman that have survived to us in Latin literature. That fact alone lends it a rather special aura… As has just been described, Sulpicia was not very good at writing complex texts, which had a difficult meter and structure. Her poems are very simply written and laboriously formulated, but refreshing. It's something different from the normal "difficult" lyrics by, for example, Tibullus. The lyrics testify to self-knowledge and sketch a situation from the perspective of Sulpicia herself. The poems are very direct and personal.
