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  1. 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.
    Author:The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. encyclopedia.com

    Little is known about the early life of Livius Andronicus, who was born around 280 b.c.e. He likely came to Rome as a teacher of Greek and Latin sometime in the mid-third century b.c.e. in the household of one Livius Salinator, from whom he took the family name "Livius" after being freed.
  3. guides.lib.byu.edu

    Jul 25, 2024Images of classical artifacts in the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum LIMC - Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae Online database offering limited access to the images and information in the print edition of LIMC (Ancient Studies N 7760 .L49 1981, 12 v.).
    Author:Robert L. MaxwellPublished:2009
  4. 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. 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 ...
  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. 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.
  8. oxfordreference.com

    Feb 9, 2025Livius ignored the 24‐book division introduced at Alexandria. He seems to have kept fairly close to the general wording of the Homeric text but gave both the gods and the heroes (e.g. Odysseus = Ulixes) local names and took account of the differences between Roman and Greek notions of story‐telling.
  9. That he was called L. Livius Andronicus is strictly an inference. (2) Status and origin. Apparent implication of these tria nomina is that the poet was a Greek by birth, named Andronikos, that somehow he became a slave in the household of a Roman Livius, and that he was manumitted and became a cituis liberrinus with the praenomen Lucius; he ...

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