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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

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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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    Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. ... when a Roman audience saw a play adapted from the Greek by Livius Andronicus. Andronicus also translated Homer's Odyssey into Saturnian verse. The poets Ennius, Accius, and Patruvius followed. ... Classical art has been taken as a model in later periods ...
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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to classical studies: . Classical studies (Classics for short) - earliest branch of the humanities, which covers the languages, literature, history, art, and other cultural aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world. The field focuses primarily on, but is not limited to, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during classical ...
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    The theatrical production of Livius Andronicus (280-200 BC) shifted the attention of the Romans from pre-literary comic works to the tragic genre. Andronicus, with whom the Archaic Age of Latin literature is usually said to begin, was the first author, albeit of Greek origin, to compose a play in Latin, performed in 240 BC at the ludi ...
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    Livia Drusilla, wife of the emperor Augustus.. The gens Livia was an illustrious plebeian family at ancient Rome.The first of the Livii to obtain the consulship was Marcus Livius Denter in 302 BC, and from his time the Livii supplied the Republic with eight consuls, two censors, a dictator, and a master of the horse.Members of the gens were honoured with three triumphs.
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    Goldberg's book is an excellent treatment of the development of Roman epic from Livius Andronicus to Ennius to Virgil. The standard edition of Ennius' Annales is that of Skutsch. See also Whitman for a comparative study of Old Latin and Old English meter (he argues for alliteration and accent as definitive for both). ... Yale Classical Studies ...
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    Titus Maccius Plautus [1] (/ ˈ p l ɔː t ə s / PLAW-təs; c. 254 - 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature.The word Plautine / ˈ p l ɔː t aɪ n / (PLAW-tyne) refers to both Plautus's ...
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    Statue of Lucius Cornelius Balbus the younger. Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus - consul; Marcus Baebius Tamphilus - consul; Quintus Baebius Tamphilus - praetor; Tiberius Claudius Balbilus - astrologer; Decius Caelius Calvinus Balbinus - senator/emperor; Marcus Atius Balbus - praetor, married Julia Minor; Titus Ampius Balbus - tribune and proconsul; Lucius Cornelius Balbus (consul 40 BC) - consul
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    The History of Rome originally comprised 142 "books", 35 of which—Books 1-10 with the Preface and Books 21-45—still exist in reasonably complete form. [1] Damage to a manuscript of the 5th century resulted in large gaps in Books 41 and 43-45 (small lacunae exist elsewhere); that is, the material is not covered in any source of Livy's text.
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    Literae humaniores, nicknamed Greats, is an undergraduate course focused on classics (Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Latin, ancient Greek, and philosophy) at the University of Oxford and some other universities. The Latin name means literally "more human literature" and was in contrast to the other main field of study when the university began, i.e. res divinae (or literae divinae, lit. div ...

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