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Publius Terentius Afer Is Better Known To Us As The Roman Playwright, Terence. Much Of His Life, Especially The Early Part, Is Either Unknown Or Has Conflicting Sources And Accounts. His Birth Date Is Said To Be Either 185 Bc Or A Decade Earlier: 195 Bc. His Place Of Birth Is Variously Listed As In, Or, Near Carthage, Or, In Greek Italy To A Woman Taken To Carthage As A Slave. It Is Suggested That He Lived In The Territory Of The Libyan Tribe That The Romans Called Afri, Near Carthage, Before Being Brought To Rome As A Slave. Probability Suggests That It Was There, In North Africa, Several Decades After The Destruction Of Carthage By The Romans In 146 Bc, At The End Of The Punic Wars, That Terence Spent His Early Years. One Reliable Fact Is That He Was Sold To P. Terentius Lucanus, A Roman Senator, Who Had Him Educated And, Impressed By His Literary Talents, Freed Him. These Writing Talents Were To Ensure His Legacy As A Playwright Down Through The Millennia. His Comedies, Partially Adapted From Greek Plays Of The Late Phases Of Attic Comedy, Were Performed For The First Time Around 170-160 Bc. All Six Of The Plays He Has Known To Have Written Have Survived. Indeed, Thanks To His S

Author

Terence

Publisher

Stage Door

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781787806511

Subjects

Drama, Performing Arts, Literary Fiction