LIGDAM (Lygdamus)

Ligdam; Lygdamus, genus. 43 g. BC. e., Roman poet. In the book. Tibullova III Corps (cm. Tibull) survived 6 elegies under the name L. It is assumed that L. - A pseudonym of the poet of the circle Messaly. L. tried to identify with Tibull, Propertius, Ovid, brother, as well as Ovid, but none of these hypotheses are not fully confirm. We only know that Ovid and L. born in one year, as one of the elegies L. called the year of his birth 43 year. His work was dedicated to Nisa, wife or mistress, which he left. He describes the vision of the underworld, where he soon will bring sorrow, leads numerous mythological comparisons, even trying to deny Venus to find solace from Bacchus. A form of poetry. correct, but they are too rhetorical, few are sincere, and therefore boring.