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    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.
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    Latin Poetry Before the Augustan AgeLatin Epic Poetry.The Latin epic begins in 240 b.c.e. with Livius Andronicus, a Greek from Tarentum, modern Taranto on the south coast of Italy, which had been founded as the Greek colony of Taras and fell into Roman hands after Rome's war with Pyrrhus. Source for information on Latin Poetry before the Augustan Age: Arts and Humanities Through the Eras ...
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    chapter eight THEATERLisaRengoGeorge Source for information on Ancient Greece and Rome 1200 B.C.E.-476 C.E.: Theater: Arts and Humanities Through the Eras dictionary. Skip to main content . EXPLORE. EXPLORE. Earth and Environment; History; Literature and the Arts ... Livius Andronicus … 377 Lycoris … 377 Menander … 378 Gnaeus Naevius ...
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    Roman Theaters, Playwrights, and ActorsStructure of the Roman Theater.The Romans did not construct a permanent theater until Pompey sponsored one in 55 b.c.e. Instead, as the Roman architect, engineer, and writer Vitruvius (last half of first century b.c.e.) described, the Romans built temporary wooden structures as performance spaces, and continued to do so even after the advent of permanent ...
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    Classical AntiquityScholars and artists of the Renaissance were fascinated by the great cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. They believed that studying the achievements of the past was the key to creating a glorious future. They pored over ancient texts and sifted through ruins to unearth objects such as monuments, coins, and statues. Growing awareness of this era known as classical antiquity ...
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    Roman TheaterBeginnings.The Roman historian Livy, writing of the years 364-363 b.c.e., related that there was plague in Rome. Since neither human remedies nor prayers to the gods abated the plague, the Romans introduced musical shows in the hopes of entertaining them. Etruscan dancers were brought in who danced to a piper's tune. Rome already had a comic tradition; at the harvest home ...
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    The Art of Public Speaking in Greece … 154 Greek Literature after Alexander the Great … 155 Roman Theater … 157 Latin Poetry Before the Augustan Age … 160 Latin Prose Writers Before the Augustan Age … 162 The Golden Age of Latin Literature Under Augustus … 164 Latin Literature of the Silver Age … 169
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    The Annales of Ennius, who died a century before Vergil was born, already borrowed the dactylic hexameter for the recording of year-by-year Roman history (indeed, as an epic poet, Ennius presents himself as the reincarnation of Homer). Even earlier than this, Livius Andronicus had made a translation (although into saturnians) of Homer's ...
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    CLASSICISM. CLASSICISM. In general, classicism can be defined as a style in literature, visual art, music, or architecture that draws on the styles of ancient Greece and Rome, especially fifth- and fourth-century b.c.e. Athens and late Republican Augustan Rome. The term can be confusing, because it has taken on many other meanings. It can refer to a general aesthetic characterized by clarity ...
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    His family name is known from historical records as a plebeian rather than noble name and he was certainly a Roman citizen, not a freedman like his contemporary Livius Andronicus. He served in the Roman army during the first Punic War (264-241 b.c.e.) and began writing for the stage afterward, with his first production in Rome in 235 b.c.e.

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