Ennius' Annals: Poetry and History

ISBN-13: 9781108723169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Cynthia Damon; Joseph Farrell

Opis

Advances the study of Ennius' Annals, a foundational but now fragmentary work of Latin literature, by exploring the cross-fertilization of recent critical approaches to Latin poetry and historiography and by reflecting on the tools and methods conducive to future literary and historical research on the poem.

Spis treści

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.