Plautus (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Titus Maccius Plautus (PLAW-tuhs) was born about 254 b.c.e. in Sarsina, the capital of the Umbrian people of central Italy, only a dozen years after they came under the sway of Rome. Being a freeman, the ambitious Titus could leave home and go south along the Flaminian Way to Rome, which was still a city of thatch and timber. Because some of the Roman generals had become lovers of the theater in Syracuse, where they saw adaptations by a Greek slave, Andronicus, the Ludi Romani of 240 b.c.e. featured a Greek tragedy and a comedy. Temporary wooden platforms made the theater, and the...
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