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Ennius' Annals : Poetry and History
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: History and Poetry in Ennius' Annals -- Part I. Innovation -- Part II. Authority -- Part III. Influence -- Part IV. Interpretation -- Coda: The...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2020
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6185950 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: History and Poetry in Ennius' Annals -- Part I. Innovation -- Part II. Authority -- Part III. Influence -- Part IV. Interpretation -- Coda: The Format of the Fragment Numbers -- I Innovation -- Chapter 1 Hybrid Ennius: Cultural and Poetic Multiplicity in the Annals -- 1 Becoming a Peacock -- 2 Ennius and Discordia -- 3 Ennius Senex -- Chapter 2 History, Philosophy, and the Annals -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Doctrine of the Four Elements -- 3 Reincarnation, Immortality, and Divine Founders -- 4 Philosophy in Ennius: A Reappraisal -- Chapter 3 The Gods in Ennius -- 1 Ennius, Hesiod, and the Muses -- 2 Divine and Heroic Genealogy -- 3 The Muses and Olympian Religion -- 4 Ennius' Theology -- 5 Other Divinities in the Annals -- Appendix: Dub. fr. 5 (6-7) -- II Authority -- Chapter 4 Allegory and Authority in Latin Verse-Historiography -- 1 Allegory and Verse-Historiography -- 2 Authority -- Chapter 5 Reading Ennius' Annals and Cato's Origins at Rome -- 1 Cicero as Reader of Cato's Origins and Ennius' Annals -- 2 Romans and Others as Collectives in Cato's Origins and Ennius' Annals -- 3 Exordium -- Chapter 6 Looking for auctoritas in Ennius' Annals -- 1 Ennius the Historian? -- 2 Dubiety in the Annals -- 3 Conflicting Stories about Numa -- A. Numa's Books? -- B. The Reign of Numa -- 4 Ennius' Numa -- A. Fr. **2.1 (113) -- B. Fr. **2.2 (114-115) -- C. Fr. **2.3 (116-118) -- D. Fr. 2.4 (119) -- E. Ennius' Numa in Vergil? -- 5 Ennius' Authority -- Chapter 7 Ennius' Annals as Source and Model for Historical Speech -- 1 Ennius between Sources and Intertext -- 2 Divine Speech between Poetry and History -- 3 Historical Speech between Fact and Fiction -- 4 Hannibal between Annals and History. Conclusion: Ennius between Historical and Cultural Truth -- III Influence -- Chapter 8 Ennius and the fata librorum -- 1 What the Sources Say -- 2 What the Silence Says -- 3 Conclusions -- Chapter 9 How Ennian Was Latin Epic between the Annals and Lucretius? -- 1 Ennius in Literary History -- 2 Assumptions about Post-Ennian Republican-Era Epic -- 3 Varieties of Epic Poetry in Rome, ca. 250-ca. 50 bce -- 4 The Title Annals -- 5 Ennian Influence on Other Fragments of Republican Historical Epic -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix: Greek and Roman Epic in the Late Republic -- Chapter 10 Livy's Ennius -- 1 Citing Ennius -- 2 Citing Genre -- 3 On Being Raised by Wolves -- Chapter 11 Ennius' Annals and Tacitus' Annals -- 1 Hexameters and Historiography -- 2 Ennian Echoes in Tacitus' Annals -- IV Interpretation -- Chapter 12 Ennius and Lucilius: Good Companion/Bad Companion -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Lucilius on Ennius -- 3 Poets and Grammarians -- 4 Good Companion/Bad Companion -- Chapter 13 Ennius' Annals as Historical Evidence in Ancient and Modern Commentaries -- 1 Vahlen's Ennius -- 2 Skutsch's Ennius -- 3 Briscoe's Livy -- 4 Oakley's Livy -- 5 Servius -- 6 Ennius among the Poets -- Chapter 14 Commenting on the Annals: Steuart, Skutsch, and Ennius -- 1 Commentary and Fragments -- 2 Commenting on the Annals -- Afterword -- Works Cited -- General Index -- Index Locorum. Brings together historical and literary perspectives to begin charting a new course for research on Ennius' masterpiece |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (368 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108676878 |
