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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 Homer ...
Vigorita and West discuss the Saturnian and its prehistory in connection with the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European meter. Goldberg's book is an excellent treatment of the development of Roman epic from Livius Andronicus to Ennius to Virgil. The standard edition of Ennius' Annales is that of Skutsch. See also Whitman for a comparative study ...
Marcus Livius Salinator - consul & founder of Forlì; Sallustius – Neoplatonist author; Bust of Sulla Gaius Sallustius Crispus - two; historian and his adopted son; Gaius Sallustius Passienus Crispus - consul, grandson of Sallust; Salvianus - writer; Quintus Salvidienus Rufus - general of Octavian; Lucius Antonius Saturninus - usurper
Andronicus or Andronikos (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος) is a classical Greek name. The name has the sense of "male victor, warrior". The name has the sense of "male victor, warrior". Its female counterpart is Andronikè (Ἀνδρονίκη).
Scholars conventionally date the start of Latin literature to the first performance of a play in verse by a Greek slave, Livius Andronicus, at Rome in 240 BC.Livius translated Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, using meters that were basically those of Greek drama, modified to the needs of Latin.
Livius Andronicus is recognized as the originator of literature in the Latin language, and due to Rome's influence, the development of Latin literature often extended beyond the traditional boundaries of Rome. Plautus was an influential playwright known for his comedies that emphasized humor and popular culture.
Livia Drusilla, wife of the emperor Augustus.. The gens Livia was an illustrious plebeian family at ancient Rome.The first of the Livii to obtain the consulship was Marcus Livius Denter in 302 BC, and from his time the Livii supplied the Republic with eight consuls, two censors, a dictator, and a master of the horse.
Very early Latin epicists, such Livius Andronicus and Gnaeus Naevius, used Saturnian meter. By the time of Ennius, however, Latin poets had adopted dactylic hexameter. Dactylic hexameter has been adapted by a few anglophone poets such as Longfellow in "Evangeline", whose first line is as follows: This is the | forest pri | meval.