Titus Quinctius Atta (died 77 BCHieron. Ab Abr. 1940, 77 BCE [p. 152e Helm]),) was a Roman comedy writer, and, like Titinius and Afranius, was distinguished as a writer of fabulae togatae, national comedies.
Works He had the reputation of being a vivid delineator of character, especially female. He also seems to have published a collection of epigrams. The scanty fragments contain many archaisms, but are lively in style. According to Horace (Epistles, ii 1. 79), the plays of Atta were still put on the stage in his lifetime.
Surviving titles and fragments We only have the titles (and associated fragments) of twelve of Atta's plays.
Aedilicia Aquae Caldae Conciliatrix (Matchmaker) Gratulatio Lucubratio Materterae (Maternal Aunts)Megalensia (The Megalensia Festival) Nurus (Daughter-in-Law) Satura Socrus (Mother-in-Law) Supplicatio Tiro Proficiscens (Tiro Setting Forth)
Further literature Gesine Manuwald 2011, Roman Republican Theater (Cambridge 2011), p. 266–267
References
Attribution: Endnotes: Aulus Gellius vii. 9 Fragments in Neukirch, De fabula togata 18 manorum (1833) Otto Ribbeck, Comicorum Latinorum reliquiae (1855).