Plautus biography

Titus Maccius Plautus (‘Plautus’) was a Roman comic playwright of the Republican period known as the author of 21 surviving plays, including Amphitruo (his only extant play on a mythological subject), Aularia (‘The Pot of Gold’), Menaechmi (‘The Brothers Menaechmus’), Miles Gloriosus (‘The Boastful Soldier’), and Rudens (‘The Rope’).

Apart from piecemeal remarks by CiceroCic. Brut. 60Cic. Sen. 50, who notes that Plautus died in 184 BC and imagines that the Truculentus and Pseudolus were the delight of his old age, the earliest extant story of Plautus’ life—or imaginary life—is found in the Attic Nights of Aulus GelliusGell. 3.3.14. Gellius, who had access to On Poets by Varro (d. 27 BC) and seems to be drawing on it here, tells us that Plautus had been engaged in ‘jobs connected with the stage’ (in operis artificum scaenicorum). At some point, the poet lost all his money in trade (mercatibus), after which he returned penniless to Rome and ended up as a menial labourer at a mill – an activity associated with slaves – where he also wrote three plays. Gellius’ story is echoed by JeromeJer. Chron. ad Ol. 145.1 = 200 BC in his version of the Chronicle of Eusebius under the year 200 BC (thus giving a different date of death from

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Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC)

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Titus Maccius Plautus^[1] (PLAW-təs; c. 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature. The word Plautine (PLAW-tyne) refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his.

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Not much is known about Titus Maccius Plautus's early life. It is believed that he was born in Sarsina, a small town in Emilia Romagna in northern Italy, around 254 BC.^[2] According to Morris Marples, Plautus worked as a stage-carpenter or scene-shifter in his early years.^[3] It is from this work, perhaps, that his love of the theater originated. His acting talent was eventually discovered; and he adopted the nomen "Maccius" (from Maccus, a clownish stock character in Atellan Farce) and agnomen "Plautus" ("trampled flat", usually in reference to "flat-footed" but sometimes intending "flat-eared" like the ears of a hound).^[4] Tradition holds that he made enough money