Livius Andronicus

Livius Andronicus in Wikipedia

Lucius Livius Andronicus (c. 280/260 BC – c. 200 BC), 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 Homer’s Odyssey.[1] They were meant at first as educational devic...

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Livius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Andronīcus. An early writer who is regarded as the founder of Roman epic and dramatic poetry. He was by birth a Greek of Southern Italy, and was brought as a slave to Rome, after the conquest of Tarentum in B.C. 272, while still a young man. His master, a Livius (perhaps Livius Salinator), whose name he bears, gave him his liberty, and he became an...

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