Quintus Novius ( ''fl.'' 30 BC), was a

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dramatist, and composer of

Atellanae Fabulae The Atellan Farce (Latin: ''Atellanae Fabulae'' or ''Fabulae Atellanae'', "favola atellana"; ''Atellanicum exhodium'', "Atella comedies"), also known as the Oscan Games (Latin: ''ludi Osci'', "Oscan plays"), were masked improvised farces in Ancient ...

(Atellan Fables). His efforts seem to have been directed towards giving literary dignity to this form of drama without diminishing their popular quality and traditional cast of characters. He is known to have written his works around the same time as

Lucius Pomponius Lucius Pomponius (fl. c. 90 BC or earlier) was a Roman dramatist. Called ''Bononiensis'' (“native of Bononia” (i.e. Bologna), Pomponius was a writer of Atellanae Fabulae (Atellan Fables), and a near contemporary of Quintus Novius. Pomponius ...

, who also wrote Atellanae Fabulae;

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makes reference to him as a very well-esteemed writer whose ''atellaniolae'' ("little Atellans") found a receptive audience. Some of Novius' known works, among the forty-three that are attributed to him, include:

Sources

Meyer, Maurice, “Études sur le théâtre latin”
(1847)

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