LAEVY (Laevius)

Laevy; Laevius, I in. BC. e., Roman poet. By love games (Erotopaegnia) in 6 books on the mythical and erotic themes. "Pegnii" (from the Greek. paegnia) is a light, humorous work that are very eager to Alexandrian poets. The names of some works (not all of them were part of the collection), such as Adonis, Alceste, Elena, Phoenix - are taken from mythology. L. cared about the form of his poems, especially about their metric Diversity willingly entered a new compound words. Composing Phoenix graphically resembled the wings of birds. The most important merit of L. is shifting the Roman literature of many sizes, used by Greek lyric poetry.