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    Ancient theater at Syracuse, Sicily, originally Greek. Lucius Livius Andronicus (/ ˈ l ɪ v i ə s /; Greek: Λούκιος Λίβιος Ανδρόνικος; c. 284 - c. 204 BC) [1] [2] was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period during the Roman Republic.He began as an educator in the service of a noble family, producing Latin translations of Greek works, including ...
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    Lucius Livius Andronicus (born c. 284 bc, Tarentum, Magna Graecia [now Taranto, Italy]—died c. 204 bc, Rome?) was the founder of Roman epic poetry and drama.. He was a Greek slave, freed by a member of the Livian family; he may have been captured as a boy when Tarentum surrendered to Rome in 272 bc.A freedman, he earned his living teaching Latin and Greek in Rome.
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  4. oxfordre.com

    Summary. Lucius Livius Andronicus (c. 280/70-200 bce) was a Latin author of probable Greek origin who is credited with initiating the tradition of scripted dramatic performance at Rome and composing the first epic poem in Latin.Andronicus's life appears to have spanned a large part of the 3rd century bce; the only firmly transmitted date concerns the performance of a hymn to Juno for which ...
    Author:H. D. Jocelyn, Gesine ManuwaldPublished:2016
  5. encyclopedia.com

    Livius Andronicus (lĬ´vēəs ăndrənī´kəs), fl. 3d cent. BC, Roman poet, a Greek, b. Tarentum (Taranto). ... Literature and the Arts; Classical Literature: Biographies; Livius Andronicus. Livius Andronicus. gale. views updated May 09 2018. ... He also began producing plays for and acting on the Roman stage, influenced by the Greek theater ...
  6. www2.classics.upenn.edu

    A Roman epic and dramatic poet. Born apparently in Campania, about 270 B.C., be served in the Roman army during the first Punic War; and, settling after this at Rome, he brought his first play upon the stage in 235, i.e. soon after the first appearance of Livius Andronicus. Owing to the license and recklessness with which he incessantly ...
  7. cambridge.org

    Of Rome's three earliest poets, two were professional teachers and both were culturally as much Greek as Italian. The few relatively secure facts about Livius Andronicus are representative of Rome's literary beginnings. He came from Tarentum in Greek-speaking south Italy, which had been captured by Roman forces between 280 and 275 BC.
  8. bmcr.brynmawr.edu

    98.2.04, A History of Roman Literature from Livius Andronicus to Boethius with Special Regard to Its Influence on World Literature. Mnemosyne Supplement 169. 2 vols. ... Classical studies have in modern times been bedevilled by concentration on the classical. In literature as in everything else it is, historically speaking, the transitional ...
  9. oxfordreference.com

    "Livius Andronicus" published on by null. (fl. 240-204 bc)Founder of Roman drama. ... Classical studies Encyclopedias English Dictionaries and Thesauri History Language reference Law Linguistics Literature Media studies ... Founder of Roman drama. A freed Greek slave from Tarentum, Andronicus presented his translation of a Greek play in 240 ...
  10. academic.oup.com

    Abstract. For students of Roman antiquity, translation figures in two arenas. First, it was a cultural activity of the Roman Empire from the third century BCE onwards, when a Romanised Greek called Livius Andronicus 'turned' Greek epic and drama into Latin, and thus inaugurated Latin literature with his versions of Homer's Odyssey and Greek drama. . Livius's respectful imitation soon ...
  11. infoplease.com

    Livius Andronicus lĭˈvēəs ăndrənīˈkəs , fl. 3d cent. b.c., Roman poet, a Greek, b. Tarentum (Taranto). He was captured and made a slave at the fall of Tarentum and was freed by his master, a Livian noble, hence his name. Later he became a teacher and an actor.

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    Lucius Livius Andronicus was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period during the Roman Republic. He began as an educator in the service of a noble family, producing Latin translations of Greek works, including Homer's Odyssey. The translations were meant, at first, as educational devices for the school which he founded. He also wrote works for the stage—both tragedies and comedies—which are regarded as the first dramatic works written in the Latin language. His comedies were based on Greek New Comedy and featured characters in Greek costume. Thus, the Romans referred to this new genre by the term comoedia palliata or fabula palliata, meaning "cloaked comedy," the pallium being a Greek-style cloak. The Roman biographer Suetonius later coined the term "half-Greek" of Livius and Ennius. Wikipedia

    Bornc. 284 BC, Tarentum
    Age at death80 years
    Diedc. 204 BC (aged around 79), Rome
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