...For students of Roman antiquity, translation figures in two arenas. First, it was a cultural activity of the Roman Empire from the third century BCE onwards, when a Romanised Greek called Livius Andronicus ‘turned’ Greek epic and drama into Latin, and thus inaugurated Latin literature...

...This chapter examines the early development of ludi scaenici (dramatic festivals) at Rome and the introduction there of fabulae palliatae (the type of drama now known as Roman comedy) by Livius Andronicus and Naevius after the end of the First Punic War. Various...

.... Homer Livius Andronicus nostos as master trope explored by Lucan Odysseus Penelope 24 412–20 24 426–37 24 522–48 Pompey 11 121–33 23 268–80 2 1 62 Fr 1 Fr 2 Fr 11 1 Camena gods the absence of their providence in the Ph 1 2–3 Cato the Younger populus Romanus as central character...

...Chapter 1 surveys the place of Homer in Roman literary culture before Ovid, including the prominent place of the Iliad and Odyssey in early education and the role played by Livius Andronicus and Ennius in bringing the Greek past to Rome. It offers an overview...

... in Republican verse (error/errare, vagus/vagari, etc.). It then turns to the fragmentary Latin poets before Plautus in whose work the theme occurs, namely, Livius Andronicus and Naevius, to show that one can trace the poetic figuration...

...Thunder and Lament. Timothy A. Joseph, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197582145.003.0005 This chapter explores Lucan’s closure of a theme that is central to Livius Andronicus’s Odusia and Naevius’s Bellum...

... a fuller range of interpretative choices, accompanied by an awareness of the consequences those choices entail. Ennius texts Commentaries Macrobius Naevius Bellum Punicum scholarship Skutsch Otto Quintilian Brevis Expositio Homer Scholia Bernensia Virgil Cicero Livius Andronicus Odusia Varro...

... in 241 and the establishment of relations with Ptolemaic Egypt made it possible to preserve poetry and performance on papyrus; the beginning of ‘Latin literature’, in the plays and poems of Livius Andronicus, was evidently influenced by the collection of texts in the Alexandrian library. But texts were...

.... These judgements are neither wholly reliable (especially where the direct influence of Crates is concerned) nor entirely fair; in particular, they rather understate the skill and literary sophistication that both Livius Andronicus and Ennius brought to their own work. On the other hand, most of the men whose lives...