
Ennius Perennis
the Annals and Beyond
Cambridge Philological Society (Publisher)
Published on 30. November 2007
Book
Hardback
172 pages
978-0-906014-30-1 (ISBN)
Description
Ennius Perennis: the Annals and Beyond is a collection of eight essays by an international group of scholars on different aspects of the poetry and legacy of Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC). Ennius' epic poem the Annals and his many other works, including tragedies, satires and epigrams, survive only in mystifying fragments, but his influence on Latin poetry was enormous. He is now beginning to be appreciated, thanks both to excellent critical editions and to more enlightened literary and historical approaches, as a complex and varied poet and a fascinating representative of an era of intense cultural and political change. While they acknowledge the extent to which later authors are responsible for creating a misleading perception of Ennius as monolithic, jingoistic and clumsy, these essays also reflect on what can be said about the nature and aims of his work, given the limitations of our evidence. Subjects discussed include Cicero's "invention" of Ennius, the part played by the cor (heart) in unifying Ennius' literary project, the possibility of "further voices" and a role for women in Ennius, Virgil's fraught "father-son" relationship with his epic predecessor and Ennius' later reincarnation in the works of Horace and Petrarch. The collection is likely to appeal to all who are interested in Latin literature, literary history or reception studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 149 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-906014-30-1 (9780906014301)
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Persons
William Fitzgerald will, from October 1st 2007, be Professor of Latin, King's College, London and is currently Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Emily Gowers is Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College.
Content
Introduction; Contributors; I: The Ennian Corpus: The influence of Cicero in Ennius (James E G Zetzel); The Cor of Ennius (Emily Gowers); II: Ennian Voices and Landscapes: The voices of Ennius' Annals (Jacqueline Elliott); Women in Ennius' Annals III: Ennius and Virgil: Virgil vs. Ennius, or: The undoing of the annalist (Ingo Gildenhard); Killing the father: Ennius, Naevius and Virgil's Julian Imperialism (Sergio Casali); IV: Ennius and his Reception: Poets, patrons, rulers: The Ennian traditions (Philip Hardie); A letter from Petrarch (L B T Houghton); Bibliography.