Livius Andronicus

Livius Andronicus, the father of Roman dramatic and epic poetry, was a Greek by birth, probably a native of Tarentum, and was carried a slave to Rome in 272 B.C., but afterwards liberated by his master. He translated the Odyssey into Latin Saturnian verse, and wrote tragedies, comedies, and hymns after Greek models. Mere fragments are extant, collected in L. Müller's Livi Andronici et Cn. Navi Fabularum Reliquiae (1885). See LATIN.