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BC), better known in English as Terence (/ ˈ t ɛr ə n s /), was a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six comedies based on Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. Terence's plays were originally staged around 166–160 BC.
Terence was, after Plautus, the greatest Roman comic dramatist, the author of six verse comedies that were long regarded as models of pure Latin. Terence’s plays form the basis of the modern comedy of manners. Terence was taken to Rome as a slave by Terentius Lucanus, an otherwise unknown Roman.
Jan 21, 2022 · Meaning & History. From the Roman family name Terentius, which is of unknown meaning. Famous bearers include Publius Terentius Afer, a Roman playwright, and Marcus Terentius Varro, a Roman scholar. It was also borne by several early saints.
Jun 13, 2024 · The name Terence is a boy's name of Latin origin. A name that seems to hail from the old Irish neighborhoods of Boston and New York, Terence actually dates back a lot further, to the time of a famous second-century poet, who started life as a North African enslaved man in the house of a Roman senator and it was also borne by several early saints.
Terence, orig. Publius Terentius Afer, (born c. 195, Carthage, North Africa—died 159? bc, in Greece or at sea), Roman comic dramatist. Born as a slave, he was taken to Rome, where he was educated and later freed. His six extant verse plays are The Woman of Andros, The Mother-in-Law, The Self-Tormentor, The Eunuch, Phormio, and The Brothers.
Jun 8, 2018 · Terence (195-159 B.C.), or Publius Terentius Afer, was a Roman comic playwright. As a translator and adapter of the Greek New Comedy, produced about 336-250 B.C., he gave near-perfect form and expression in Latin to the comedy of manners.
Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (Chinese: 陶哲軒; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian and American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences.
Publius Terentius Afer (fl. 166–160 BC), better known in English as Terence, was a Roman playwright. Terence was the author of six plays, all comedies based on Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus.
May 25, 2011 · Terence composed six comedies (fabulae palliatae) adapted from Greek New Comedy (especially Menander but also Apollodorus), which were performed in the years 166–160 BCE, all produced by the actor-director Ambivius Turpio.
The Introduction covers the obvious topics: Terence’s Life, Chronology, Rome in the 160s, Latin Comedy and Greek New Comedy, Terence’s Prologues, Performance Conditions. As a bonus there is a brief but interesting account of the reception of Terence down the ages, with particular reference to attacks on the morality of the plays.
