Pacuvius
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Marcus Pacuvius (; 220 – ) was an ancient Roman tragic poet. He is regarded as the greatest of their tragedians prior to Lucius Accius.
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- Caecilius Statius, M. Pacuvius, L. Accius
- Marco Pacuvio
- I frammenti dei drammi, ricostruiti e tradotti da Raffaele Argenio
- Fragmenta
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- Livius Andronicus ; Naevius ; Pacuvius and Accius1936 · 3 cit
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5 total works indexed
- Paulus
· 1936
- Medley
· 1936
- Unassigned Fragments
· 1936
- Epitaph
· 1936
- Tragedies
· 1936
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Quotes
- “Men servasse ut essent qui me perderent?”
- “Flucti flacciscunt, silescunt venti, mollitur mare.”
- “O flexanima atque omnium regina rerum oratio!”
- “Conqueri fortunam advorsam, non lamentari decet;id viri est officium, fletus muliebri ingenio additust.”
- “Patria est, ubicumque est bene.”
- “Adulescens, tam etsi properas te hoc saxum rogatUt sese aspicias, deinde quod scriptum est legas.Hic sunt poetae Pacuvi Marci sitaOssa. Hoc volebam nescius ne esses. Vale.”
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Key facts
- Writer.name
- Pacuvius
- Writer.image
- Marcus Pacuvius (Liber chronicarum) (cropped).jpg
- Writer.caption
- An illustration of Pacuvius from the Nuremberg Chronicle
- Writer.birth_date
- 220 BC
- Writer.birth_place
- Brundisium
- Writer.death_date
- c. 130 BC
- Writer.death_place
- Tarentum
- Writer.nationality
- Roman
- Writer.genre
- Tragedy
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- Marcus Pacuvius.jpg
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- date of birth
- 0220-04-29
- date of death
- 0130-02-07
- name
- Pacuvius
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Pacuvius, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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- Biography
- Epitaph
- Literary legacy
- References
Marcus Pacuvius (; 220 – ) was an ancient Roman tragic poet. He is regarded as the greatest of their tragedians prior to Lucius Accius.
== Biography == He was the nephew and pupil of Ennius, by whom Roman tragedy was first raised to a position of influence and dignity. In the interval between the death of Ennius (169 BC) and the advent of Accius, the youngest and most productive of the tragic poets, Pacuvius alone maintained the continuity of the serious drama, and perpetuated the character first imparted to it by Ennius. Like Ennius he probably belonged to an Oscan stock, and was born at Brundisium, which had become a Roman colony in 244 BC.