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.
Advances the study of Ennius' Annals, a foundational but now fragmentary work of Latin literature, by exploring the cross-fertilization of recent critical approaches to Latin poetry and historiography and by reflecting on the tools and methods conducive to future literary and historical research on the poem.
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Brings together historical and literary perspectives to begin charting a new course for research on Ennius' masterpiece.
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.
Cynthia Damon is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an expert in historiography and an editor and translator of Latin texts. She has published on Tacitus Histories 1 (Cambridge, 2002), Agricola (2017) and Annals (2012) and Caesar's Civil War Caesar's Civil War (with Will Batstone, 2006), an Oxford Classical Text (2015), and a Loeb Classical Library edition (2016). Joseph Farrell is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an expert on Latin poetry who focuses on epic and related genres. He is co-editor, with Dee Clayman, of a forthcoming history of Classical literature and is a former President of the Society for Classical Studies and current editor of the American Journal of Philology.
