Format:
Online-Ressource (606 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781107027480
Content:
Combines a critical survey of the ancient sources for Ennius' Annales with fresh interpretation of the surviving record
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Ennius and the annalistic tradition at Rome; Introduction; Ennius' epic and the pontifical record; Ancient assessment of annales: content, style and power to explain and motivate; A brief history of Ennius' Annales in the assessment of modern scholars; The poem's economy; Politics and the Roman epic tradition; Ennius and historicity; The gods in the Annales; Eponymous consular dating and the use of time in Ennius' Annales; Historia and annales
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The shape and pace of the Annales: narrative choices and authorial controlThe ancient evidence for the distribution of material into the books of the Annales; Livy as a comparandum for narrative economy; Summary and conclusion: the functions of the title?; Chapter 2 The Vergiliocentric sources and the question of the evidence: Ennius and the epic tradition of Greece and Rome; Introduction: the question of the evidence; Saturnalia 6: organisation and content; The sources and the construction of the epic tradition (I): Language imitating Homeric formula; Macrobius; Servius
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DS and the other Vergiliocentric sourcesVergiliocentric sources and the earlier Roman epic tradition; Vergil, the sources and the scholars: the pitfalls and the promise of a post-Vergilian reading; The Vergiliocentric sources and Lucretius' use of quasi-formulaic language; The sources and the construction of the epic tradition (2): Similes; The sources and the construction of the epic tradition (3): unique passages; The sources and the construction of the epic tradition (4): peculiarities of language and Ennius' explanatory power; Chapter 3 The pre-Vergilian sources; Varro
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Varro's fragments and the proem to the Annales: the methodology of re-constructionThe Rhetorica ad Herennium; Cicero; De Inventione 1.27 (80s bce): Ann. 216; Brutus 57-60 (46 bce): Ann. 304-8; De Senectute 16 (44 bce): Ann. 199-200; De Officiis 1.84 (44 bce): Ann. 363-5; Pro Balbo 50-1 (56 bce): Ann. 234-5; De Officiis 1.38 (44 bce): Ann. 183-90; De Re Publica 3.4-5 (51 bce): Ann. 456; The Pro Archia (62 bce): poetry and patronage in second- and first-century Rome; De Re Publica 1.25 (51 bce): Ann. 153; De Natura Deorum 2.4-5 (45 bce): Ann. 592
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De Oratore 1.197-8 (55 bce), De Re Publica 1.30 (51 bce), Tusc. Disp. 1.18 (45 bce): Ann. 329De Re Publica 1.64 (51 bce): Ann. 105-9; Brutus 71 (46 bce): Ann. 207-9; Academica Priora 2.88 (45 bce): Ann. 4; De Divinatione (43 bce); Div. 1.107-8: Ann. 72-91; Div. 1.39-43: Ann. 34-50; Div. 2.115-16: Ann. 167, 197-8; The Bellum Hispaniense; Chapter 4 The Annales as historiography: Ennius and the invention of the Roman past; The history of the problem in ancient and modern literature; Alias in historia leges observandas hellip alias in poemate (Cic. Leg. 1.5)
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Epic, historiography and the narration of the past
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107247741
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107027480
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales
Language:
English
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