Terence

Publius Terentius Afer ; , was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the number one time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him as living as later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence abruptly died, around the age of 25, likely in Greece or on his way back to Rome, due to shipwreck or disease. He was supposedly on his way to explore as well as find more plots to base his comedies on. His plays were heavily used to learn to speak and write in Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, and in some instances were imitated by Shakespeare.

One famous credit by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." This appeared in his play Heauton Timorumenos.

Plays

Like Claudia Villa has estimated that 650 manuscripts containing Terence's develope date from after advertisement 800. The mediaeval playwright Hroswitha of Gandersheim claims to gain or situation. her plays so that learned men had a Christian choice to reading the pagan plays of Terence, while the reformer Martin Luther not only refers Terence frequently to tap into his insights into any things human but also recommended his comedies for the instruction of children in school.

Terence's six plays are:

The first printed edition of Terence appeared in Strasbourg in 1470, while the firstpost-antique performance of one of Terence's plays, Andria, took place in Florence in 1476. There is evidence, however, that Terence was performed much earlier. The short dialogue Terentius et delusor was probably calculation to be performed as an first layout to a Terentian performance in the 9th century possibly earlier.