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	Gnaeus Naevius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If these lines were dictated by a jealousy of the growing ascendancy of Ennius, the life of Naevius must have been prolonged considerably beyond 204, the year in which Ennius began his career as an author in Rome.
		As distinguished from Livius Andronicus, Naevius was a native Italian, not a Greek; he was also an original writer, not a mere adapter or translator.
		The power of Naevius was the more genuine Italian gift the power of satiric criticism which was employed in making men ridiculous, not, like that of Plautus, in extracting amusement from the humours, follies and eccentricities of life.
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	Naevius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Naevius was the nomen for the plebeian gens Naevia of ancient Rome.
		Gnaeus Naevius, poet and dramatist 3rd century BC
		In biology, Naevius is a genus of spiders.
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	Gnaeus Naevius
		On the whole, we are inclined to justify the people in their admiration for him as a genuine exponent of the strong native humour of his day, which the refined poets of a later age could not appreciate.
		The Metelli, especially, were assailed by him, and it was probably through their resentment that he was sent to prison, where he solaced himself by composing two comedies.
		If mortals might weep for mortals, the divine Camenae would weep for Naevius the poet; thus it is that now he has been delivered into the treasure-house of Orcus, men have forgotten at Rome how to speak the Latin tongue.
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	Gnaeus Naevius -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As distinguished from (Click link for more info and facts about Livius Andronicus) Livius Andronicus, Naevius was a native Italian, not a Greek; he was also an original writer, not a mere adapter or translator.
		Among the titles of his tragedies are Aegisthus, Lycurgus, Andromache or Hector Proficiscens, Equus Trojanus, the last named being performed at the opening of (Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC)) Pompey's theatre (55).
		As a dramatist he worked more in the spirit of Plautus than of Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius or Terence; but the great (A mountainous region in central Italy) Umbrian humorist is separated from his older contemporary, not only by his breadth of comic power, but by his general attitude of moral and political indifference.
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	Gnaeus Naevius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gnaeus Naevius was one of Rome’s first comic poets.
		Gnaeus Naevius additionally produced historical accounts of Roman events in his plays, and even began to write original plays based on Italian rather than Greek themes.
		It is thought that Naevius was born in Campania and was educated in Tarentum by Greek tutors, where he read and watched performances of new dramas by Philemon and Menander.
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		If these lines were dictated by a jealousy of the growing ascendancy of Ennius, thelife of Naevius must have been prolonged considerably beyond 204, the year in whichEnnius began his career as an author in Rome.
		As distinguished from Livius Andronicus, Naevius was a native Italian, not a Greek; he was also an original writer, not a mereadapter or translator.
		The power of Naevius was the more genuine Italian gift the power of satiric criticism which was employedin making men ridiculous, not, like that of Plautus, in extracting amusement from the humours, follies and eccentricities oflife.
	www.therfcc.org /gnaeus-naevius-175961.html (1091 words)

	Gnaeus Naevius -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The titles of two praetextae are known, Romulus and Clastidium, the latter celebrating the victory of Marcus Claudius Marcellus in 222 and...
		Livius Andronicus, a Greek living in Rome, was the first to adapt Greek plays (in 240 BC), and his example was followed in 235 BC by the poet Gnaeus Naevius, a native of Campania.
		Naevius can be regarded as the first native Italian playwright, and the genre of comedies he founded...
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	Encyclopedia: Gnaeus Naevius
		Utica was a Phoenician colony, on the African coast, near Carthage.
		Lucius Livius Andronicus (284-204 BC), was a Greek who became a Roman Dramatist and epic Poet, who gave Romans their first chance to read Greek classics in their own language.
		Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium.
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	Naevius -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Naevius was the (Click link for more info and facts about nomen) nomen for the (One of the common people) plebeian gens Naevia of ancient (Capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire) Rome.
		In (The science that studies living organisms) biology, Naevius is a ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species) genus of (Predatory arachnid that usually has silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey) spiders.
		A number of different ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed) species have naevia as the second part of the (Click link for more info and facts about binomial name) binomial name.
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	Naevius Sutorius Macro Aelius Sejanus Suetonius Tiberius Roman Praetorian Guard Caligula Prefect Naevius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Quintus Naevius Sutorius Macro (or Quintus Naevius Cordus Sutorius Macro) (21 BC - 38 AD) was the Prefect of the Roman Praetorian Guard after the execution of Aelius Sejanus in October, 31.
		Quintus Naevius Sutorius Macro (or Quintus Naevius Cordus Sutorius Macro) (21 BC - 38 AD) was the commander of the Roman Praetorian Guard after the execution of Aelius...
		Quintus Naevius Cordus Sutorius Macro) (21 BC - 38 AD) was the commander of the Roman Praetorian Guard after the execution of Aelius Sejanus in October, 31.
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	GNAEUS NAEVIUS - LoveToKnow Article on GNAEUS NAEVIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		There is great uncertainty in regard to his life.
		Probably his latest composition was the epitaph already referred to, written like the epic in Satu.rraian verse: Immortales mortales si foret fas flere, Flerent divae Camenae Naevium poetam; Itaque postquam est Orci traditus thesauro Obliti sunt Romai loquier lingua Latina.
		The power of Naevius was the more genuine Italian giftthe power of satiric criticismwhich was employed in making men ridiculous, not, like that of Plautus, in extracting amusement from the humours, follies and eccentricities of life.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NA/NAEVIUS_GNAEUS.htm (1184 words)

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		In his plays, Naevius satirized Roman society from the perspective of a plebeian.
		Forced to leave Rome, he retired to Utica in Africa.
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		Gnaeus Naevius was a Roman poet and originator of historical plays.
		He chronicled the events of the First Punic War (264-261) in his 'Bellum Poenicum' relying for facts upon his own experience in the war.
		Naevius' history the war against Carthage became the first Roman national epic.
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	NAEVIUS, GNAEUS (c. 264—? 194 B.C.) - Online Information article about NAEVIUS, GNAEUS (c. 264—? 194 B.C.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ennius, the life of Naevius must have been prolonged considerably beyond 204, the year in which Ennius began his career as an author in Rome.
		fair estimate of Naevius are scanty, all that we do know of him leads to the conclusion that he was far from being the least among the makers of Roman literature, and that with the loss of his writings there was lost a vein of national feeling and genius which rarely reappears.
		On Virgil's indebtedness to Naevius and Ennius, see V. Crivellari, Quae praecipue hausit Vergilius ex Naevio et Ennio (1889).
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		This was the poet’s epitaph (Naevius fragment 64), an inscription now lost preserved only as an ancient quotation (Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.24.1ff).
		O Gnaeus Naevius, is the language of today ever better than the language of yesterday?
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		Importance = he brought Greek verse into Latin.
		Gnaeus Naevius (270-190): He wrote the Bellum Punicum (epic on first Punic War); 8 tragedies, 34 comedies, and several historical plays.
		Titus Maccius Plautus (254-184): born in Sarsina north central Italy.
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	Introduction to Theatre -- Roman Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Little is known, but he seems to have been best at tragedy.
		Gnaeus Naevius — 270-201 B.C. excelled at comedy, but wrote both
		Both helped to "Romanize" the drama by introducing Roman allusions into the Greek originals and using Roman stories.
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		0112: Gnaeus Naevius 0116: Marcus Pacuvius 0117: Papinius, epigram.
		0564: Manius Manilius 0568: Gnaeus Matius 0574: Gaius Memmius L. f.
		0584: Mimi Poetarum Incertorum 0586: Mummius 0587: Naevius, iunior 0588: Cornelius Nepos 0590: Publius Nigidius Figulus 0591: Ninnius Crassus 0592: Novius, comoed.
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