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Titus Maccius Plautus [1] ( / ˈplɔːtəs /, PLAW-təs; c. 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature.
Jan 4, 2016 · Titus Maccius Plautus, better known simply as Plautus (actually a nickname meaning 'flatfoot'), was, between c. 205 and 184 BCE, a Roman writer of comedy plays, specifically the fabulae palliatae, which had a Greek-themed storyline.
Plautus was a great Roman comic dramatist, whose works, loosely adapted from Greek plays, established a truly Roman drama in the Latin language. Little is known for certain about the life and personality of Plautus, who ranks with Terence as one of the two great Roman comic dramatists.
Plautus , (born c. 254, Sarsina, Umbria?—died 184 bc), Roman comic playwright. Little is known for certain about his life, but tradition holds that he was associated with the theatre from an early age.
May 11, 2018 · Plautus (ca. 254-ca. 184 B.C.) was a Roman writer. His theatrical genius, vitality, farcical humor, and control of the Latin language rank him as Rome's greatest comic playwright. During the 3d century B.C., Roman writers began to imitate the forms and contents of Greek literature.
Partly through merit and partly through fortune, Plautus stands as the fountainhead of comic drama. A central fact is that each play of Plautus is rendered from a Greek original; twice the...
These critics were reluctant to credit Plautus with much skill or creativity and often suggested, when confronted with great divergence between Plautus's plays and Greek models, that...
Overview. Plautus. (c. 254—184 bc) Roman comic dramatist. Quick Reference. Comic playwright, author of fabulae palliatae (see fabula) between c. 205 and 184 bc; plays by Plautus are the earliest Latin works to have survived complete.
Few details are known about Plautus’s (PLAWT-uhs) life. Of the approximately 130 comedies that he wrote for the Roman stage, only 21 survive.
The earliest Latin author whose works are preserved, is the father of farce, and his influence upon later playwrights who freely borrowed his characters, plots, and jokes has been immense.
