# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gnaeus-naevius
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:47:11.580Z

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description: "Gnaeus Naevius was a Roman epic poet and dramatist of the Old Latin period. He had a notable literary career at Rome until his satiric comments delivered in comedy angered the Metellus family, one of whom was consul. After a sojourn in prison he recanted and was set free by the tribunes. After a second offense he was exiled to Tunisia, where he wrote his own epitaph and committed suicide. His comedies were in the genre of Palliata Comoedia, an adaptation of Greek New Comedy. A soldier in the Punic Wars, he was highly patriotic, inventing a new genre called Praetextae Fabulae, an extension of tragedy to Roman national figures or incidents, named after the Toga praetexta worn by high officials. Of his writings there survive only fragments of several poems preserved in the citations of late ancient grammarians."
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deathDate: "-201"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump