biography
| name: |
Livius Andronicus, Lucius
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pronunciation:
[livius andronikus
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| male
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| lived:
| (fl.3rd-c BC)
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| biography:
| Writer and playwright, born in Tarentum, Greece. He was taken prisoner during the Roman capture of the city, and sold as a slave in Rome in 272 BC. After he was freed, he earned his living teaching Latin and Greek in Rome, translated the Odyssey into Latin Saturnian verse, and wrote tragedies, comedies, and hymns after Greek models. Only fragments of his works have survived, but he remains ‘the father of Roman dramatic and epic poetry’. |
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