A slave from Carthage who became Rome's cleanest comic voice - six plays that survived two millennia intact and taught half of Europe how to write dialogue.
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In their own words 7
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
The Prologue, line 17.
Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth.
Act I, scene 1, line 45 (72).
That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another.
Act II, scene 5, line 15 (426).
Writers born in the 190s BC 4
About this person
Born around 195 or 185 BC in Carthage, Terence was brought to Rome as a slave, where he received an education and eventually his freedom. Between 166 and 160 BC, he wrote six comedies adapted from Greek originals by Menander and Apollodorus of Carystus - all six survive complete. Around age 25, he's said to have sailed east seeking inspiration and died there, either from disease in Greece or by shipwreck on the return voyage, though ancient biographers may have invented much of this. His plays became standard school texts almost immediately, securing him a spot as one of four authors taught to every grammar student in the Western Roman Empire. That position held through the 19th century, shaping the craft of Shakespeare and Molière.
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