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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
The name is given to a baby boy, it means a man excelling others. Andronicus of Olynthus, Greek general under Demetrius in the 4th century BC; Livius Andronicus (c. 284 – c. 204 BC), Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet who introduced drama to the Romans and produced the first formal play in Latin
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.
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.
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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.