Ennius' Annals
Ennius' <I>Annals</I>
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.
- Combines consideration of Ennius' innovations as a writer of history in verse form with consideration of the reception and transmission of the Annals
- Illustrates the progress that can be made in interpreting the Annals independent of any commitment to broad assumptions about the nature of the poem or the arrangement of its surviving fragments
- Offers a new format for citing the fragments of the Annals, without abandoning the numeration used in the now-standard edition of the poem
Product details
April 2020Hardback
9781108481724
353 pages
235 × 158 × 25 mm
0.64kg
2 tables
Available
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.
