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    Lucius Livius Andronicus (/ˈlɪviəs/; Greek: Λούκιος Λίβιος Ανδρόνικος; c. 284 – c. 204 BC) was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin...
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  • Look up Andronicus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Andronicus or Andronikos (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος) is a classical Greek name. The name has the...
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    Odissia or Odyssia), a translation/paraphrase of Homer's Odyssey by Livius Andronicus (c. 3rd century BC), and the Bellum Poenicum, an epic on the First...
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    to remind, warn, or instruct). She is mentioned in a fragment of Livius Andronicus' Latin Odyssey: Nam diva Monetas filia docuit ("since the divine daughter...
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  • adapted from Greek drama by Livius Andronicus, a Greek prisoner of war who had been brought to Rome as a slave in 272 BC. Andronicus translated Homer's Odyssey...
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    strategists, writers and athletes such as Archytas, Aristoxenus, Livius Andronicus, Heracleides, Iccus, Cleinias, Leonidas, Lysis and Sosibius. By 500...
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  • Caesar Livilla - daughter of Drusus Marcus Livius Drusus - reformer Lucius Livius Andronicus - dramatist Titus Livius (Livy) - writer Lollia Paulina - wife...
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    identified with the Greek Muses. The first instance of this is in Livius Andronicus' translation of Homer's Odyssey, rendering the Greek word Mousa (Μοῦσα)...
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    with Livius Andronicus, Gnaeus Naevius, Plautus, and Terence for comedy and Seneca for tragedy: The theatrical production of Livius Andronicus (280–200...
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    comedies written by Livius Andronicus beginning in 240 BC. Five years later, Gnaeus Naevius, a younger contemporary of Andronicus, also began to write...
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    Livia gens (redirect from Livius (gens))
    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...
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    Minerva on the Aventine Hill. Among others, its members included Livius Andronicus. The Aventine sanctuary of Minerva continued to be an important center...
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  • have survived intact, all by Seneca. Of the plays written by Lucius Livius Andronicus, Gnaeus Naevius, Quintus Ennius, Marcus Pacuvius, Lucius Accius, and...
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  • then captured by Meng Ao's son Meng Wu. The first Latin tragedy by Livius Andronicus, Achilles, is first produced. May 25 – Chinese astronomers make the...
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     298. ISBN 978-0-8160-7482-2. Livingston, Ivy (2013-04-15). A Linguistic Commentary on Livius Andronicus. Routledge. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-135-92401-0. v t e...
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    their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature. The word Plautine /ˈplɔːtaɪn/...
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    von. 1997. "Prudentius." In A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius with Special Regard to its Influence on World Literature...
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  • romischen Dichtung, i. (1887) Plessis, Frédéric: La poésie latine de Livius Andronicus à Rutilius Namatianus (1909) Wiseman, T P: Catullan Questions (Leicester...
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  • 371–372 Michael von Albrecht, A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius, Leiden: Brill, 1997, p. 1578 Angelo Di Berardino (ed...
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    year in which Ennius began his career as an author in Rome. Unlike Livius Andronicus, Naevius was a native Italian, not a Greek; he was also an original...
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    free-verse and verse-form plays and other in Latin; for example, Livius Andronicus wrote tragedies and comedies. The earliest Latin works to have survived...
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    Greek New Comedy, but references to and fragments of the works of Livius Andronicus, Gnaeus Naevius, and Ennius indicate that all three wrote tragic fabulae...
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    von Albrecht, Michael (1997). A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius. Vol. 2. Brill. p. 1193. ISBN 9004107118. Reynolds, L...
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    Elements Menander: Dyskolos Theophrastus: Enquiry into Plants Old Latin Livius Andronicus, Gnaeus Naevius, Plautus, Quintus Fabius Pictor, Lucius Cincius Alimentus...
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  • (1935, revised 1956; ISBN 0-674-99324-1) Remains of Old Latin II: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Pacuvius and Accius (1936; ISBN 0-674-99347-0) Remains of...
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    religious duty. Livy, 27.37.5–15; the hymn was composed by the poet Livius Andronicus. Cited by Halm, in Rüpke (ed.) 244. For remainder, see Rosenberger...
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    von Albrecht, Michael (1997). A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius. Vol. I. Leiden: BRILL. p. 374. ISBN 978-90-04-10709-0...
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  • George A. (Spring 1981). "The Dialect Gloss, Hellenistic Poetics and Livius Andronicus". American Journal of Philology. 102 (1): 58–78. doi:10.2307/294154...
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    Elder Cicero, speaking from the perspective of Cato: "I myself saw Livius Andronicus when he was an old man, who, though he brought out a play in the consulship...
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    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...
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