Not to be confused with Titus Livius, known as Livy.
Lucius Livius Andronicus
Detail of a poet giving directions from a theatrical scene. Roman mosaic from the tablinum Casa del Poeta tragico (VI 8, 3–5) in Pompeii. Naples National Archaeological Museum.
Born
c. 284 BC Tarentum
Died
c. 204 BC (aged around 79) Rome
Occupation
Writer; playwright; poet
Language
Latin, Greek
Notable works
Latin translation of the Odyssey
Ancient theater at Syracuse, Sicily, originally Greek
Lucius Livius Andronicus (/ˈlɪviəs/; 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's Odyssey.[3] 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.[4] The Roman biographer Suetonius later coined the term "half-Greek" of Livius and Ennius (referring to their genre, not their ethnic backgrounds).[5] The genre was imitated by later generations of playwrights, and Andronicus is accordingly regarded as the father of Roman drama and of Latin literature in general; that is, he was the first man of letters to write in Latin.[6] Varro, Cicero, and Horace, all men of letters during the subsequent Classical Latin period, considered Livius Andronicus to have been the originator of Latin literature. He is the earliest Roman poet whose name is known.[7]
^Warmington, E. H. (1961). Remains of Old Latin, Vol. II. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. xiii.
^Brockett and Hildy (2003, 47).
^"Fabula palliata". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17 October 2009.
^Monroe, Paul (1902). "Selections from the Lives of Eminent Grammarians, by Suetonius". Source book of the history of education for the Greek and Roman period. New York, London: Macmillan Co. pp. 349–350. ...for the earliest men of learning, who were both poets and orators, may be considered as half-Greek: I speak of Livius and Ennius, who are acknowledged to have taught both languages as well at Rome as in foreign parts.
Lucius LiviusAndronicus (/ˈlɪviəs/; Greek: Λούκιος Λίβιος Ανδρόνικος; c. 284 – c. 204 BC) was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin...
Look up Andronicus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Andronicus or Andronikos (Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος) is a classical Greek name. The name has the sense...
comedies written by LiviusAndronicus beginning in 240 BC. Five years later, Gnaeus Naevius, a younger contemporary of Andronicus, also began to write...
strategists, writers and athletes such as Archytas, Aristoxenus, LiviusAndronicus, Heracleides, Iccus, Cleinias, Leonidas, Lysis and Sosibius. By 500...
adapted from Greek drama by LiviusAndronicus, a Greek prisoner of war who had been brought to Rome as a slave in 272 BC. Andronicus translated Homer's Odyssey...
have survived intact, all by Seneca. Of the plays written by Lucius LiviusAndronicus, Gnaeus Naevius, Quintus Ennius, Marcus Pacuvius, Lucius Accius, and...
Minerva on the Aventine Hill. Among others, its members included LiviusAndronicus. The Aventine sanctuary of Minerva continued to be an important center...
to remind, warn, or instruct). She is mentioned in a fragment of LiviusAndronicus' Latin Odyssey: Nam diva Monetas filia docuit ("since the divine daughter...
identified with the Greek Muses. The first instance of this is in LiviusAndronicus' translation of Homer's Odyssey, rendering the Greek word Mousa (Μοῦσα)...
Caesar Livilla - daughter of Drusus Marcus Livius Drusus - reformer Lucius LiviusAndronicus - dramatist Titus Livius (Livy) - writer Lollia Paulina - wife...
with LiviusAndronicus, Gnaeus Naevius, Plautus, and Terence for comedy and Seneca for tragedy: The theatrical production of LiviusAndronicus (280–200...
educated Greek, named Andronicus, as a tutor for his children; once freed, Andronicus became the founder of Roman drama. Marcus Livius M. f. M. n. Salinator...
romischen Dichtung, i. (1887) Plessis, Frédéric: La poésie latine de LiviusAndronicus à Rutilius Namatianus (1909) Wiseman, T P: Catullan Questions (Leicester...
free-verse and verse-form plays and other in Latin; for example, LiviusAndronicus wrote tragedies and comedies. The earliest Latin works to have survived...
Greek New Comedy, but references to and fragments of the works of LiviusAndronicus, Gnaeus Naevius, and Ennius indicate that all three wrote tragic fabulae...
George A. (Spring 1981). "The Dialect Gloss, Hellenistic Poetics and LiviusAndronicus". American Journal of Philology. 102 (1): 58–78. doi:10.2307/294154...
von Albrecht, Michael (1997). A History of Roman Literature: From LiviusAndronicus to Boethius. Vol. 2. Brill. p. 1193. ISBN 9004107118. Reynolds, L...
Elements Menander: Dyskolos Theophrastus: Enquiry into Plants Old Latin LiviusAndronicus, Gnaeus Naevius, Plautus, Quintus Fabius Pictor, Lucius Cincius Alimentus...
von. 1997. "Prudentius." In A History of Roman Literature: From LiviusAndronicus to Boethius with Special Regard to its Influence on World Literature...
religious duty. Livy, 27.37.5–15; the hymn was composed by the poet LiviusAndronicus. Cited by Halm, in Rüpke (ed.) 244. For remainder, see Rosenberger...
Theocritus was a major poet who popularized the genre. Around 240 BC LiviusAndronicus, a Greek slave from southern Italy, translated Homer's Odyssey into...
then captured by Meng Ao's son Meng Wu. The first Latin tragedy by LiviusAndronicus, Achilles, is first produced. May 25 – Chinese astronomers make the...
von Albrecht, Michael (1997). A History of Roman Literature: From LiviusAndronicus to Boethius. Vol. I. Leiden: BRILL. p. 374. ISBN 978-90-04-10709-0...
important works of Roman literature were the tragedies and comedies that LiviusAndronicus wrote from 240 BC. Five years later, Gnaeus Naevius also began to...
Elder Cicero, speaking from the perspective of Cato: "I myself saw LiviusAndronicus when he was an old man, who, though he brought out a play in the consulship...
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