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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 ...
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).
Marcus Livius Salinator - consul & founder of Forlì Sallustius – Neoplatonist author Bust of Sulla Gaius Sallustius Crispus - two; historian ( Sallust ) and his adopted son
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.
Saturnian meter or verse is an old Latin and Italic poetic form, of which the principles of versification have become obscure. Only 132 complete uncontroversial verses survive. 95 literary verses and partial fragments have been preserved as quotations in later grammatical writings, as well as 37 verses in funerary or dedicatory inscriptions.
He could have been familiar with Greek words even as a young boy and later he poked fun at the jargon of mixed Greek and Oscan spoken in neighbouring Canusium. [7] One of the works he probably studied in school was the Odyssia of Livius Andronicus , taught by teachers like the ' Orbilius ' mentioned in one of his poems. [ 8 ]
Roman comedy is mainly represented by two playwrights, Plautus (writing between c.205 and 184 BC) and Terence (writing c.166-160 BC). The works of other Latin playwrights such as Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, and Caecilius Statius are now lost except for a few lines quoted in other authors. 20 plays of Plautus survive complete, and 6 of Terence.
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