Knowra Lucius Accius Lucius Accius Lucius Accius was a Roman tragic poet and scholar of the second century BCE. His influential Latin tragedies survive chiefly as quotations and fragments.
Roman tragedy : A dramatic genre developed in Rome, combining Greek tragic models with Latin language and Roman performance traditions. Accius became one of the most prominent authors of this Roman dramatic genre.
Atreus (Accius) : A lost tragedy by Accius about Atreus, known through quotations preserved by later writers. Its forceful language became the most famous surviving example of Accius’s dramatic style.
Roman Republic : The period of Roman government before the establishment of imperial rule, conventionally dated from 509 to 27 BCE. Accius wrote during the Republic’s political and cultural expansion.
Aulus Gellius : A Roman author of the second century CE whose miscellany preserves excerpts and discussions of earlier literature. Gellius quotes Accius and records judgments about his language and dramatic work.
Greek tragedy : A classical Greek dramatic genre centered on grave conflicts involving human beings, divine powers, and civic life. Greek plays and myths supplied major models for Accius’s Latin tragedies.
Brutus (Accius) : A lost Roman tragedy by Accius concerning Lucius Junius Brutus, the legendary founder of the Republic. It exemplifies Accius’s treatment of Roman legend in tragedy.
Livius Andronicus : A Greek-born poet active in Rome in the third century BCE, often regarded as the earliest Latin literary author. His Latin adaptations helped establish the theatrical tradition in which Accius later worked.
Varro : A Roman scholar and writer of the first century BCE whose works ranged across language, history, and antiquities. Varro’s scholarship helped transmit knowledge of Accius and earlier Latin poetry.
Fabula cothurnata : A Roman tragedy set in Greece and based on Greek myth or dramatic material. Many of Accius’s known plays adapted Greek subjects for Roman audiences.
Telephus (Accius) : A lost tragedy by Accius based on the Greek myth of Telephus, king of Mysia. Its subject shows Accius working with mythic material also treated by Greek tragedians.
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