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    Literature and the Arts; Classical Literature: Biographies; Terence. Terence. ... views updated Jun 08 2018. Terence. Terence (195-159 B.C.), or Publius Terentius Afer, was a Roman comic playwright. As a translator and adapter of the Greek New Comedy, produced about 336-250 B.C., he gave near-perfect form and expression in Latin to the comedy ...
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    Publius Terentius After ... Scipio championed Greek literature at Rome and included a number of authors among his group of friends, which came to be known as the "Scipionic circle." Terence wrote six comedies between 166 and 160 B.C.E., which met with less success than Plautus's. ... Although he is the first Roman author of whom there is ...
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    The Brothersby Terence (Publius Terence Afer)THE LITERARY WORK A Latin adaptation of a comic Greek play set in fourth-century bce Athens; written and performed in 160 bce.SYNOPSIS Two brothers are raised separately, one in the country by their strict biological father, the other in the city by their liberal uncle. The brothers fall in love with girls below their social class and contrive, with ...
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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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    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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    The Beginning of Roman Theater Greek Influences. The period between the death of Alexander the Great of Macedon (323 b.c.e.) and the beginnings of the Roman Empire (31 b.c.e.) is known to scholars as the Hellenistic era. Even though Athens had undergone a major political downfall, its cultural production remained steady, and its influence on first the Etruscans, from the region of Etruria in ...
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    Marcus Terentius Varro. Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.) was the greatest Roman scholar and an incredibly prolific writer. It is estimated that he wrote 74 separate works in 620 volumes on all aspects of contemporary learning. Varro was born at Reate in the Sabine country into a family of some means.
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    Other Types of Roman TheaterMime and Pantomime.Mime was a genre of theatrical performance lying outside the formal boundaries of tragedy and comedy. It originated in Greece, where it probably began as the informal performance of imitative gestures, impressions, dances, and songs. Mime actors did not wear masks or shoes, and performed mimetically, as the name of the genre implies, improvising ...
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    introduction: Literature in ancient Rome often served the purpose of the state as propaganda. In 30 b.c.e, the Roman poet Vergil began his epic work The Aeneid in response to the emperor Augustus' call for a poem to glorify his regime that could be compared without embarrassment with the works of the Greek poet Homer: the Iliad and the Odyssey ...
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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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