CLCV 1003 Lecture : roman studies terms 4.doc
11 Dec 2012
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Clcv 1003 terms 4 class of friday, october 121. Known as the man of three hearts because he knew 3 languages; his native oscan (challenged latin at the time), greek, and latin. He was the father of latin poetry", and wrote many tragedies and a few comedies, but his works survive only in fragments. Wrote annales; a history in dactylic hexameter that started from the founding of rome and went to ennius"s own time, it omitted the first punic war but included the 2nd, which he served in. His menaechmi (or brothers menaechmus) is the source for shakespeare in his comedy of errors and more modernly the boys from syracuse. His works also provided the basis for a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Wrote his first comedy the andria when he was only 19. When he died at age 26 he had written five more, all 6 of his comedies survive.
