No. 27 of 200 · Great Authors
159 BC
Major worksThe Brothers, The Eunuch, Phormio, The Self-Tormentor
A Roman playwright, said to have come to Rome as an enslaved North African before winning his freedom, whose polished comedies adapted Greek originals for the Latin stage. Admired for his refined language and humane, realistic characters, he gave Latin literature lines that became proverbs and a model of elegant style imitated long into the Renaissance.
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Episodes and essays that touch on Terence.
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