Terence (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Publius Terentius Afer, known as Terence (TEHR-uhnts), was probably born in the North African city of Carthage in 190 or 185 b.c.e. The sole source of knowledge about his life is the fourth century grammarian and commentator Donatus, who, in his commentary on Terence’s plays, preserves a biographical extract from Suetonius’s lost De viris illustribus. Terence was brought to Rome in childhood as a slave but was given the education of a gentleman by his master, the senator M. Terentius Lucanus. After having been given his freedom, the young man took the name of his former...
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