He produced half a dozen tragedies and more than 30 comedies. In his plays he often put in critical remarks an Roman daily life and politics, which lead to his imprisonment and perhaps exile.

He chronicled the events of the First Punic War (264-261) in his 'Bellum Poenicum' relying for facts upon his own experience in the war.

Naevius' history the war against Carthage became the first Roman national epic.

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