Ennius' Annals : poetry and history

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Ennius' Annals : poetry and history

edited by Cynthia Damon, Joseph Farrell

Cambridge University Press, 2023

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-338) and indexes

First published: 2020

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Description

In the context of recent challenges to long-standing assumptions about the nature of Ennius' Annals and the editorial methods appropriate to the poem's fragmentary remains, this volume seeks to move Ennian studies forward on three axes. First, a re-evaluation of the literary and historical precedents for and building blocks of Ennius' poem in order to revise the history of early Latin literature. Second, a cross-fertilization of recent critical approaches to the fields of poetry and historiography. Third, reflection on the tools and methods that will best serve future literary and historical research on the Annals and its reception. Adopting different approaches to these broad topics, the fourteen papers in this volume illustrate how much can be said about Ennius' poem and its place in literary history independent of any commitment to inevitably speculative totalizing interpretations.

Table of Contents

  • Part I. Innovation: 1. Hybrid Ennius: cultural and poetic multiplicity in the Annals Patrick Glauthier
  • 2. History, philosophy, and the annals Virginia Fabrizi
  • 3. The gods in Ennius Joseph Farrell
  • Part II. Authority: 4. Allegory and authority in Latin verse-historiography Thomas Biggs
  • 5. Reading Ennius' Annals and Cato's Origins at Rome Jackie Elliott
  • 6. Looking for auctoritas in Ennius' Annals Cynthia Damon
  • 7. Ennius' Annals as source and model for historical speech Lydia Spielberg
  • Part III. Influence: 8. Ennius and the fata librorum Sander M. Goldberg
  • 9. How Ennian was Latin epic between the Annals and Lucretius? Jason S. Nethercut
  • 10. Livy's Ennius Ayelet Haimson Lushkov
  • 11. Ennius' Annals and Tacitus' Annals A. J. Woodman
  • Part IV. Interpretation: 12. Ennius and Lucilius: good companion | bad companion Brian W. Breed
  • 13. Ennius' Annals as historical evidence in ancient and modern commentaries Jessica H. Clark
  • 14. Commenting on the Annals: Steuart, Skutsch, and Ennius Christina Shuttleworth Kraus.

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  • NCID
    BD00579428
  • ISBN
    • 9781108723169
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 351 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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