Ancient Tarantines - Aristoxenus, Livius Andronicus, Archytas, Leonidas of Tarentum, Cleinias of Tarentum, Phalanthus of Tarentum (Paperback)

Chapters: Aristoxenus, Livius Andronicus, Archytas, Leonidas of Tarentum, Cleinias of Tarentum, Phalanthus of Tarentum, Lysis of Taras, Iccus of Taranto, Sosibius of Tarentum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lucius Livius Andronicus (c. 280/260 BCE c. 200 BCE), not to be confused with the later historian Livy, was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period. He began as an educator in the service of a noble family at Rome by translating Greek works into Latin, including Homers Odyssey. They were meant at first as educational devices in the school he founded. When it came to drama he began staging plays, both tragedies and comedies, which were the first Roman dramatic works. The comedy, based on Greek New Comedy, came to be called comoedia palliata, "the Greek comedy," by the Romans. Suetonius later coined the term "half-Greek" of Livius and Ennius (referring to their genre, not their ethnic backgrounds). The genre was imitated by the next dramatists to follow in Andronicus' footsteps and on that account he is 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. 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. In ancient sources, Livius Andronicus is either given that name or is simply called Livius. Andronicus is the Latinization of a Greek name, which was held by a number of Greek historical figures of the period. It is generally considered that Andronicus came from his Greek name and that Livius, a name originally local to Latium, was the gentilicium, the family name, of his p...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=18522