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    Livius was the first literary figure to give Odysseus his Latin name, Ulysses (or Ulixes). Britannica Quiz. Poetry: First Lines. In 240, as part of the Ludi Romani (the annual games honouring Jupiter), Livius produced a translation of a Greek play, probably a tragedy, and perhaps also a comedy. After this, the first dramatic performance ever ...
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    Livius' first play, according to Cicero, was staged in 240. Livy tells us that Livius was the first to create a play with a plot. One story says that after straining his voice, Livius, who was also an actor, was the first to leave the singing to singers and limited the actors to dialogue.
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    A Roman epic and dramatic poet. Born apparently in Campania, about 270 B.C., be served in the Roman army during the first Punic War; and, settling after this at Rome, he brought his first play upon the stage in 235, i.e. soon after the first appearance of Livius Andronicus. Owing to the license and recklessness with which he incessantly ...
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    It is not known when this play was first performed. Livius Andronicus produced the first Latin tragedy for the Ludi Romani in 240 BC. We also know that he lived long enough to meet Cato the Elder (see Cicero, de Senectute, 14, 50) which suggests that he died c. 204 BC. The date range for performance is based on those two dates.
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    According to Cicero's Brutus, 1 Roman Drama began in 240 BC, when Livius (sc. Livius Andronicus) produced the first Latin fabula: hic Livius (sc. Livius Andronicus) [qui] primus fabulam C. Claudio Caeci filio et M. Tuditano consulibus = -240 docuit anno ipso ante, quam natus est Ennius [sc. -239 -1] = -240 post Romam conditam […] [sc. -753] quartodecimo et quingentesimo [sc. + 514] = -240 ...
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    INTRODUCTION. that town was taken by the Romans, and produced his first play in 197 BC at the games put on by M. Livius Salinator in that year. These were the Ludi Iuventatis that Salinator [2] had vowed to establish after the Roman victory over Hasdrubal at the battle of Sena in 207 BC. 6 This later chronology, originating with Accius, may have been followed by some ancient scholars such as ...
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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

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