Oh, he did the exact opposite of that! He built his career on standing up against authority. When Rome banned the Bacchanalia, Naevius wrote a tragedy (Lycurgus) about a Thracian king who did the same thing and was punished by Dionysus/Bacchus (a roundabout way to say “fuck you” to the senate, if you ask me).
He also wrote comedies and satires that heavily involved the politics of his time, especially concerning the powerful Metellus family and Publius Cornelius Scipio. He was so good at his work that they had to ban his form of satire (as in, ad hominem attacks against the higher-ups) and imprison him.
Naevius is the MVP of Latin literature. Everyone else is just a fuckboy of some random aristocrat or emperor.
Should’ve gotten patronized by the egotistical strongman figure of your era, Naevius, then you could’ve had everlasting fame too!
Oh, he did the exact opposite of that! He built his career on standing up against authority. When Rome banned the Bacchanalia, Naevius wrote a tragedy (Lycurgus) about a Thracian king who did the same thing and was punished by Dionysus/Bacchus (a roundabout way to say “fuck you” to the senate, if you ask me).
He also wrote comedies and satires that heavily involved the politics of his time, especially concerning the powerful Metellus family and Publius Cornelius Scipio. He was so good at his work that they had to ban his form of satire (as in, ad hominem attacks against the higher-ups) and imprison him.
Naevius is the MVP of Latin literature. Everyone else is just a fuckboy of some random aristocrat or emperor.