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ACCIUS, LUCIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 114 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACCIUS, See also:LUCIUS , See also:Roman tragic poet, the son of a freedman, was See also:born at See also:Pisaurum in See also:Umbria, in 170 B.C. The See also:year of his See also:death is unknown, but he must have lived to a See also:great See also:age, since See also:Cicero (See also:Brutus, 28) speaks of having conversed with him on See also:literary matters. He was a prolific writer and enjoyed a very high reputation (See also:Horace, Epistles, ii. 1, 56; Cicero, See also:Pro Plancio, 24). The titles and considerable fragments (about 700 lines) of some fifty plays have been preserved. Most of these were See also:free See also:translations from the See also:Greek, his favourite subjects being the legends of the Trojan See also:war and the See also:house of See also:Pelops. The See also:national See also:history, however, furnished the theme of the Brutus and See also:Decius, —the See also:expulsion of the Tarquins and the self-See also:sacrifice of Publius Decius See also:Mus the younger. The fragments are written in vigorous See also:language and show a lively See also:power of description. Accius. wrote other See also:works of a literary See also:character: Didascalicon and Pragmaticon libri, See also:treatises in See also:verse on the history of Greek and Roman See also:poetry, and dramatic See also:art in particular; Parerga and Praxidica (perhaps identical) on See also:agriculture; and an Annales. He also introduced innovations in See also:orthography and See also:grammar. See See also:Boissier, Le Poete Accius, 1856; L. See also:Muller, De Accii fabulis Disputatio (189o) ; See also:Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung (1892) ; See also:editions of the tragic fragments by Ribbeck (1897), of the others by Bahrens (1886); Plessis, Poesie latine (1909).

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