Livius Andronicus

Livius Andronicus was a Greek-born Roman poet and playwright active in the third century BCE. His Latin adaptations of Greek works mark the beginning of Roman literature.

Odusia: Livius Andronicus’s Latin verse translation of Homer’s Odyssey, composed in Saturnian meter. This translation brought a major Greek epic into Latin and became an early Roman literary work.
Old Latin: The earliest attested form of Latin, used in inscriptions and literature before classical Latin. Andronicus’s writing belongs to Latin before the language’s classical literary standard.
Roman theatre: The buildings, performances, and institutions associated with theatrical entertainment in ancient Rome. His dramatic work belongs to the earliest phase of Roman theatrical performance.
Cicero: A Roman statesman, orator, and writer of the first century BCE. Cicero discusses Andronicus as an early figure in Roman literary history.
Homer: The ancient Greek poet traditionally credited with the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Odyssey supplied the Greek source for Andronicus’s foundational Latin translation.
Roman comedy: The comic drama of ancient Rome, much of it adapted from Greek plays. Andronicus helped introduce staged drama into Roman literary culture.
Latin translation: The rendering of works from other languages into Latin. His adaptation of Greek texts helped establish translation as a literary practice in Rome.
Horace: A Roman lyric poet and satirist who lived during the first century BCE. Horace recalls the schoolroom use and rough reputation of Andronicus’s old translation.
Greek literature: Literature composed in the Greek language from antiquity to the modern era. Andronicus drew on Greek literary forms and works as he established Latin writing.
Roman tragedy: Tragic drama written and performed in ancient Rome, often drawing on Greek myth and drama. His plays helped establish tragedy as a Latin dramatic form.

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