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Born | Publius Terentius Afer c./ BC |
Died | c.
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Occupation | Playwright |
Nationality | Roman African |
Period | Roman Republic |
Publius Terentius Afer (fl. – BC), better known in English as Terence, was a Roman playwright.
Plautus and terence comedyTerence was the author of six plays, all comedies based on Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus.
According to an ancient biography by Suetonius, Terence was born in Carthage and was brought to Rome as the slave of a senator named Terentius Lucanus, who educated and freed him.
Suetonius reports that at about the age of 25, Terence travelled to Greece (or, according to another of Suetonius' sources, Asia Minor), and either died of illness in the east, or died by shipwreck on the return voyage. However, it is highly likely that the only information available to Suetonius about the life of Terence was speculation by earlier