Ennius' Annals: Poetry and History

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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. Contents Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: History and Poetry in Ennius’ Annals 1. Innovation Hybrid Ennius: Cultural and Poetic Multiplicity in the Annals History, Philosophy, and the Annals The Gods in Ennius 2. Authority Allegory and Authority in Latin Verse-Historiography Reading Ennius’ Annals and Cato’s Origins at Rome Looking for auctoritas in Ennius’ Annals Ennius’ Annals as Source and Model for Historical Speech 3. Influence Ennius and the fata librorum How Ennian Was Latin Epic between the Annals and Lucretius? Livy’s Ennius Ennius’ Annals and Tacitus’ Annals 4. Interpretation Ennius and Lucilius: Good Companion/Bad Companion Ennius’ Annals as Historical Evidence in Ancient and Modern Commentaries Commenting on the Annals: Steuart, Skutsch, and Ennius Afterword Works Cited General Index Index Locorum Пустая страница Пустая страница