id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5776 Livius Andronicus - Wikipedia .html text/html 2400 314 71 The Roman biographer Suetonius later coined the term "half-Greek" of Livius and Ennius (referring to their genre, not their ethnic backgrounds).[3] The genre was imitated by the next dramatists to follow in Andronicus' footsteps and on that account he is regarded as the father of Roman drama and of Latin literature in general; that is, he was the first man of letters to write in Latin.[4] Varro, Cicero, and Horace, all men of letters during the subsequent Classical Latin period, considered Livius Andronicus to have been the originator of Latin literature. Livius' translation made this fundamental Greek text accessible to Romans, and advanced literary culture in Latin. A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Livius Andronicus. Latin Wikisource has original text related to this article: Livius Andronicus Lucius Livius Andronicus PHI Latin Texts ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5776.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5776.txt