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Flaccus is a composer from the second century BC, of whom little is known. He was a slave of one of Terence's patrons and wrote musical scores for Terence's comedies (playing or composing music was no occupation for a free citizen).

Flaccus has the distinction of being the only composer of Ancient Rome of whom any music remains. A musical phrase accompanying a single line of Terence's play Hecyra was copied in the eighteenth century by Italian composer Arcangelo Corelli from an ancient manuscript that now is lost.

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FlaccusFlaccus was a Roman cognomen of the plebeian Fulvii, considered one of the most illustrious gentes of the city. Cicero and Pliny state that the family was originally from Tusculum, and that members still lived there in the 1st century. As usual for cognom

Flaccus (composer)Flaccus is a composer from the second century BC, of whom little is known. He was a slave of one of Terence's patrons and wrote musical scores for Terence's comedies (playing or composing music was no occupation for a free citizen). Flaccus has the distin

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