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    Livius Andronicus

    3rd-century BC Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet

    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

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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 ...
  3. 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
  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. 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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    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.
  7. 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 ...
  8. 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.
  9. 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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