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MAGNO, P., Teucro. Tragedia tratta dai frammenti di Marco Pacuvio. Edizioni Pegaso, Milano, 1976. 65p. Paperback. (Rare). 'Pacuvius, Marcus (c.220-130 B.C.), stage poet and painter of South Italian birth, nephew and pupil of Quintus Ennius. Titles of 13 tragedies of the Attic type (a.o.: Atalanta, Hermiona, Medus, Periboea, Teucer, Thyestes) are transmitted. The themes of 8 relate to the Trojan War. Several plots seem to have come from post-Euripidean pieces. In the 1st century he was regarded as the greatest of the Latin tragic poets. Cicero cites a number of extended passages in his rhetorical and philosophical dialogues. (H.D. JOCELYN in The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed.p.1090). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)