Ennius and the architecture of the Annales /
Ennius' Annales, which is preserved only in fragments, was hugely influential on Roman literature and culture. This book explores the genesis, in the ancient sources for Ennius' epic and in modern scholarship, of the accounts of the Annales with which we operate today. A series of appendic...
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| Language: | English Latin |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Ennius and the Annalistic tradition at Rome
- The vergiliocentric sources and the question of the evidence: Ennius and the epic tradition of Greece and Rome
- The pre-Vergilian sources
- The Annales as historiography: Ennius and the invention of the Roman past
- Imperium sine fine: the Annales and universal history
- Appendixes. Triadic structure and the organisation of the text according to established scholarship ; The gods in the Annales ; The organisation of the fragments: evidence and conjecture ; The chronology of the sources ; Fragments organised by source.
