Livius Andronicus

Not to be confused with Titus Livius, known as Livy.

Lucius Livius Andronicus
Detail of a poet giving directions from a theatrical scene. Roman mosaic from the tablinum Casa del Poeta tragico (VI 8, 3–5) in Pompeii. Naples National Archaeological Museum.
Born	c. 284 BC Tarentum
Died	c. 205 BC (aged around 79) Rome
Occupation	Writer; playwright; poet
Language	Latin
Notable works	Odyssey

Ancient theater at Syracuse, Sicily, originally Greek

All words for butt

Biography

Origins

Gluteus Maximus

Name

Buttocks

Dates

BackSide

Events

Rear End

Works

Odusia

Ass

Plays

Roman fresco of a theatre scene

Booty

The hymn

Butt

Further reading

• Albrecht, Michael von. (1997). A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius. With special regard to its influence on world literature. 2 vols. Revised by Gareth L. Schmeling and Michael von Albrecht. Mnemosyne Supplement 165. Leiden: Brill.
• Boyle, A. J., ed. (1993). Roman Epic. London and New York: Routledge.
• Brockett, Oscar G.; Hildy, Franklin J. (2003). History of the Theatre (Ninth International ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. ISBN 978-0205410507.
• Büchner, Karl. (1979). "Livius Andronicus und die erste künstlerische Übersetzung der europäischen Kultur." Symbolae Osloenses 54: 37–70.
• Conte, Gian Biagio; Solodow, Joseph B. (Translator) (1994). Latin Literature: A History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)
• Erasmi, G. (1979). "The Saturnian and Livius Andronicus." Glotta, 57(1/2), 125–149.
• Farrell, Joseph. (2005). "The Origins and Essence of Roman Epic." In A Companion to Ancient Epic. Edited by John Miles Foley, 417–428. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World, Literature and Culture. Malden: Blackwell.
• Fantham, Elaine. (1989). "The Growth of Literature and Criticism at Rome." In The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Vol. 1, Classical Ccriticism. Edited by George A. Kennedy, 220–244. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Horsfall, N. (1976). "The Collegium Poetarum." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, (23), 79–95.
• Kearns, J. (1990). "Semnoths and Dialect Gloss in the Odussia of Livius Andronicus." The American Journal of Philology, 111(1), 40–52.
• Rose, H. J. (1954). A Handbook of Latin Literature from the Earliest Times to the Death of St. Augustine. London: Methuen.
• Sciarrino, E. (2006). "The Introduction of Epic in Rome: Cultural Thefts and Social Contests." Arethusa 39(3), 449–469. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Sheets, G. A. (1981). "The Dialect Gloss, Hellenistic Poetics and Livius Andronicus." The American Journal of Philology, 102(1), 58–78.
• Waszink, J. (1960). "Tradition and Personal Achievement in Early Latin Literature." Mnemosyne, 13(1), fourth series, 16–33.
• Wright, John. (1974). Dancing in Chains: The Stylistic Unity of the comoedia palliata. Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome 25. Rome: American Academy in Rome.

External links

•  Latin Wikisource has original text related to this article: Livius Andronicus
• "Livius Andronicus". Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum. Retrieved 15 October 2009.
• Lucius Livius Andronicus PHI Latin Texts