Terence biography rome

Publius Terence Afer (Publius Terentius Afer), also called Terence, who lived around 185/4 – 159 BCE, was a Roman comedy writer whose work was popular not only in ancient Rome but also in the Middle Ages and later.

Terence used elegant Latin, and in his works, he focused primarily on man, his personality and reactions to entanglement in everyday and unusual problems.

Terence’s comedies abound in interesting sentences and phrases that can be treated as “golden thoughts” of ancient times. Terence’s work was characterized by combining motifs and aspects of outstanding Greek works (e.g.

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Menander, Apollodorus) and creating a comedy tailored to the Roman audience. The works of Terence have been respected and appreciated for centuries by successive historical eras.

Biography

Terence’s biography is not easy to recreate. The main source of information about the Roman comedy writer is the surviving work of Suetoni