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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. britannica.com

    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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  4. encyclopedia.com

    Livius Andronicus. c. 280 b.c.e.-c. 204 b.c.e. Playwright Translator. The Originator of Latin Poetry. 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 ...
  5. studyhowandwhy.altervista.org

    The date of birth and death is not known but it is supposed to have lived in 280-200 BC. and that it comes from the city of Taranto, a flourishing Greek city conquered by the Romans in 272 BC Livio Andronicus came to Rome, on an unspecified date, as a slave to the Roman Livio Salinatore who made him tutor to his sons, since at the time there were many who were instructed by the Greeks, who ...
  6. perseus.tufts.edu

    He then became the slave of M. Livius Salinator, perhaps the same who was consul in B. C. 219, and again in B. C. 207. Andronicus instructed the children of his master, but was afterwards restored to freedom, and received from his patron the Roman name Livius. (Hieron. in Euseb. Chron. ad Ol. 148.) Andronicus is said to have died in B. C. 221 ...
  7. oxfordre.com

    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 ...
  8. studylight.org

    'LIVIUS ANDRONICUS (c. 284-204 B.C.), the founder of Roman epic poetry and drama. His name, in which the Greek Avbpovucos is combined with the gentile name of one of the great Roman houses, while indicative of his own position as a manumitted slave, is also significant of the influences by which Roman literature was fostered, viz. the culture of men who were either Greeks or "semi-Graeci" by ...
  9. kids.kiddle.co

    Biography Origins. Livius was originally a highly educated Greek, who was bought as a slave by Roman nobles. Name. In ancient sources, Livius Andronicus is either given that name or is simply called Livius. Andronicus is the Latinization of a Greek name, which was held by a number of Greek historical figures of the period.
  10. simple.wikipedia.org

    Livius Andronicus (died between 207 and 200 BC) was a Greek author who is seen as the first Ancient Roman poet.He was probably an actor, and grew up in the Greek city Tarentum.Scholars think he was captured as a prisoner of war and taken to Rome as a slave. He was later freed, so they called him a freedman. [1] His first language was Greek and scholars think he learned Latin after coming to ...
  11. 1902encyclopedia.com

    LIVIUS ANDRONICUS occupies the position of the oldest among the recognized poets of Rome. He determined the course which Roman literature followed for more than a century after his time. The imitation of Greek comedy, tragedy, and epic poetry, which produced great results in the hands of N'ivius, Plautus, Ennius, and their successors, received its first impulse from him.

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