1. en.wikipedia.org

    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. It is generally considered that Andronicus came from his Greek name and that Livius, a name originally local to Latium, was the gentilicium, the family name, of his patron ().
  2. 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.
    Author:The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. 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 ...
    Author:H. D. Jocelyn, Gesine ManuwaldPublished:2016
  4. encyclopedia.com

    Livius Andronicus (lĬ´vēəs ăndrənī´kəs), fl. 3d cent. BC, Roman poet, a Greek, b. Tarentum (Taranto). He was captured and made a slave at the fall of Tarentum and was freed by his master, a Livian noble, hence his name. ... His exact region of origin is not known, though his last name "Andronicus" sounds Greek, and he may have been ...
  5. www2.classics.upenn.edu

    The creator of the regular Italian comedy and tragedy was a Greek named Livius Andronicus, about 240 B.C. Like the Italian tragedy, the Italian comedy was, in form and contents, an imitation, executed with more or less freedom, of the Greek. ... The original meaning of the prcenomen, in which there was sometimes a reference to peculiar ...
  6. 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 ...
  7. 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 ...
  8. 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 ...
  9. online-latin-dictionary.com

    Lucius Livius Andronicus (c. 284 - c. 204 BC) was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period. ... His innovations would be important in the history of Latin poetry. In the fragments we have, it is clear that Livius had a desire to remain faithful to the original and to be clear, while having to alter untranslatable phrases ...
  10. historyofinformation.com

    About 250 BCE Graeco-Roman dramatist and epic poet Lucius Livius Andronicus translated Homer's Odyssey into Latin, and translated and staged Greek comedies and tragedies in Rome. This is considered the beginning of Latin literature. Livius made his translation of the Odyssey, entitled the Odusia in Latin, for his classes in Saturnian verse. All that survives are parts of 46 scattered lines ...

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    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

    Bornc. 284 BC, Tarentum
    Age at death80 years
    Diedc. 204 BC (aged around 79), Rome
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