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.
Author(s): Cynthia Damon, Joseph Farrell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 365
City: Cambridge
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
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