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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Caecilius Statius, M. Pacuvius, L. Accius
- Euvres
- Frammenti dalle tragedie e dalle preteste
- I frammenti delle tragedie
- Oeuvres
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- 170 BC, Pisaurum
- Died
- c. 86 BC
- Nationality
- Roman
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- Place of birth
- Pesaro
- Place of death
- Rome
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Native language
- Latin
- Field of work
- literature
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- date of birth
- 0170-01-01
- time period
- Roman Republic
- gens
- Accia gens
- writing language
- Latin
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Lucius Accius, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Lucius Accius (/ˈæksiəs/; 170 – c. 86 BC), or Lucius Attius, was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar. Accius was born in 170 BC at Pisaurum, a town founded in the Ager Gallicus in 184 BC. He was the son of a freedman and a freedwoman, probably from Rome.
The year of his death is unknown, but he must have lived to a great age, since Cicero (born 106 BC, hence 64 years younger) reports having conversed with him on literary matters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lucius Accius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.