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Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. [1] . He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with longtime film partner and friend Bud Spencer.
Jan 21, 2022 · Usage English. Pronounced TEHR-əns [ key · IPA] Meaning & History. From the Roman family name Terentius, which is of unknown meaning. Famous bearers include Publius Terentius Afer, a Roman playwright, and Marcus Terentius Varro, a Roman scholar. It was also borne by several early saints.
Jun 8, 2018 · Terence (195-159 B.C.), or Publius Terentius Afer, was a Roman comic playwright. As a translator and adapter of the Greek New Comedy, produced about 336-250 B.C., he gave near-perfect form and expression in Latin to the comedy of manners.
Born in Roman-occupied North Africa between 195 and 185 b.c.e. (and thus believed to be the first African writer of rank), Terence (TEHR-uhns) was brought to Rome as a boy slave and sold there to...
Terence, orig. Publius Terentius Afer, (born c. 195, Carthage, North Africa—died 159? bc, in Greece or at sea), Roman comic dramatist. Born as a slave, he was taken to Rome, where he was educated and later freed. His six extant verse plays are The Woman of Andros, The Mother-in-Law, The Self-Tormentor, The Eunuch, Phormio, and The Brothers.
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six comedies based on Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. Terence's plays were originally staged around 166–160 BC.
May 25, 2011 · Terence. Boston: Twayne. A general survey designed as an introduction; includes plot summaries and discussion of structure, characters, and themes. Norwood, Gilbert. 1963. Plautus and Terence. New York: Cooper Square. Introductory; stronger on Terence than Plautus. Originally published in 1932 (New York: Longmans, Green).
