Titinius (poet)
Titinius (also Titinnius ) was a Roman comedy poet of the Republican times . 15 titles and around 125 fragments of his works have survived.
The dates of his life are unknown, but are derived from his work and his position. In general, he is classified as a contemporary of Plautus , to whom he is linguistically close, and therefore would have had in the late 3rd and early 2nd centuries BC. Wrought. In his play Barbatus , a passage related to female luxury appears with the abolition of the lex Oppia in 195 BC. Related. The 215 BC The lex Oppia , issued after the defeat of Cannae , banned women from ostentatiously displaying luxury and wealth.
In addition, one would like to conclude from a quotation from the De lingua Latina by Marcus Terentius Varro , handed down by Charisius , that Titinius lived before Terence . At least, according to the source, Varro named Titinius before Terence and 77 BC. Chr., Who died Titus Quinctius Atta as a poet who had carefully worked out the characters of her characters.
Titinius was one of the three representatives known by name, if not the founder of the Roman Republican national comedy , the togata . In it, themes and plots from Greek comedy were relocated to the Italian peninsula and their actors were equipped with the Roman toga . Besides Titinius and Atta, Lucius Afranius was the main representative of this genre.
Judging by the title of the work, women were mostly the center of action in Titinius' plays, which usually dealt with purely Roman themes. In addition, of his fifteen togats known by name, at least three played in the country and thus in the cultural provinces, which made it possible to introduce a particularly comical aspect of the pieces in Italy, the Roman Republic, which was increasingly under Greek influence and customs.
It is possible that Nonius Marcellus received the plays of Titinius directly in the 3rd or 4th century, and according to one Scholion , Horace referred to him in a letter.
The following titles have survived: Barbatus, Caecus, Fullonia (or Fullones ), Gemina, Hortensius, Insubra, Iurisperita, Privigna, Prilia, Psaltria or Ferentinatis, Quintus, Setina, Tibicina, Varus, Veliterna.
literature
- Ekkehard strenght : Titinius. In: Werner Suerbaum (Ed.): The archaic literature. From the beginnings to Sulla's death (= Handbook of the Latin Literature of Antiquity. Volume 1). CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48134-5 , pp. 261-262.
- Stefan Weinstock : Titinius 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI A, 2, Stuttgart 1937, Sp. 1540-1546.
- Peter Lebrecht Schmidt : Titinius 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , column 628 f.
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Titinius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Titinnius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman comedy poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr. |