ROMANS and their GREEK Favorites



GREEK:
ORIGIN:
Acquisition:
ROMAN PATRON:
Livius ANDRONICUS
plays
slave from Tarentum brought by
(ca. 241B.C.?)
M. Livius Salinator
ENNIUS
plays, history
Calabria brought by
(198 B.C.)
M. Porcius Cato
(cos. 195)
METRODOROS
painter, philosopher
of Athens brought by Aemilius Paullus
(cos. 168)
PANAETIUS
Stoic philosopher
of Rhodes guest of
(144–129)
Scipio Aemilianus
(cos. 147, 134)
POLYBIOS
statesman, historian
of Megalopolis hostage, then guest
(168-129)
Scipio Aemilianus
BLOSSIUS
philosopher
of Cumae tutor and friend of Tiberius Gracchus
(tribunus plebis 133)
DIOPHANES
rhetorician
of Mitylene tutor and friend of Tiberius Gracchus
MENELAUS
orator
of Marathos tutor of Gaius Gracchus
(tr. pl. 123, 122)
ANTIPATER
poet
of Sidon friend Q. Lutatius Catulus
(cos. 102)
Lutatius DAPHNIS
grammarian
. freedman of Q. Lutatius Catulus
MENEDEMOS
rhetorician
. guest of M. Antonius
(cos. 99)
ASKLEPIADES
physician
of Bithynia friend of L. Crassus
(cos. 95)
ALEXANDER
historian
of Miletus slave of
freed by
a Lentulus
L. Cornelius Sulla
EPICADUS
author
. freedman
biographer of
L. Cornelius Sulla
(cos. 88)
ANTIOCHOS
philosopher
of Askalon companion of L. Lucullus
(cos. 74)
TYRANNION
Aristotelian
of Amisos prisoner of
librarian of
Murena & Lucullus
M. Tullius Cicero
ARCHIAS
poet
of Antiocheia client of L. Lucullus
M. Tullius Cicero (cos. 63)


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