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  2. 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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  3. Jan 10, 2025Epic - Later Variations: Latin epic poetry was initiated in the 3rd century bce by Livius Andronicus, who translated the Odyssey into the traditional meter of Saturnian verse. It was not until the 1st century bce, however, that Rome possessed a truly national epic in the unfinished Aeneid of Virgil, who used Homer as his model. The story of Aeneas's journey, recounted in the first six books ...
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  4. Golden Age, 70 bc - ad 18. The Golden Age of Latin literature spanned the last years of the republic and the virtual establishment of the Roman Empire under the reign of Augustus (27 bc - ad 14). The first part of this period, from 70 to 42 bc, is justly called the Ciceronian.It produced writers of distinction, most of them also men of action, among whom Julius Caesar stands out.
  5. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Lucius Livius Andronicus. His main work, the Odyssia, a translation of Homer's Odyssey, was possibly done for use as a schoolbook. Written in rude Italian Saturnian metre, it had little poetic merit, to judge from the less than 50 surviving lines and from the comments of Cicero (Brutus) and Horace (Epistles); according…
  6. Western theatre - Ancient Rome: If the quality of theatre is reflected in the values of the civilization out of which it grows, then this is vividly illustrated by the fate of theatre in Roman times. Suffering from vulgarized public taste, a lack of originality, and a preference for spectacle over seriousness, nearly all of the Roman plays were imitations or loose translations of Greek dramas ...
  7. ludi scaenici, (Latin: "stage games"), in ancient Rome, theatrical performances associated with the celebration of public games (ludi publici), in which Greek dramatic forms were first used by the Romans.Although originally performed at the Ludi Romani (for which Livius Andronicus wrote the first Latin tragedy and the first Latin comedy in 240 bc), the ludi scaenici became the ...
  8. Gnaeus Naevius (born c. 270 bc, Capua, Campania [Italy]—died c. 200 bc, Utica [now in Tunisia]) was the second of a triad of early Latin epic poets and dramatists, between Livius Andronicus and Ennius. He was the originator of historical plays (fabulae praetextae) that were based on Roman historical or legendary figures and events.The titles of two praetextae are known, Romulus and ...
  9. Latin literature - Silver Age, Epic Poetry, Satire: After the first flush of enthusiasm for Augustan ideals of national regeneration, literature paid the price of political patronage. It became subtly sterilized; and Ovid was but the first of many writers actually suppressed or inhibited by fear. Only Tacitus and Juvenal, writing under comparatively tolerant emperors, turned emotions pent up ...

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