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’ ENNIUS ANNALS Poetry and History In the context of recent challenges to long-standing assumptions aboutthenatureofEnnius’Annalsandtheeditorialmethodsappro- priatetothepoem’sfragmentaryremains,thisvolumeseekstomove Ennian studies forward on three axes: first, a re-evaluation of the literary and historical precedents for and building blocks of Ennius’ poeminordertorevisethehistoryofearlyLatinliterature;second,a cross-fertilization of recent critical approaches to the fields of poetry and historiography; third, reflection on the tools and methods that willbestservefutureliteraryandhistoricalresearchontheAnnalsand its reception. With different approaches to these broad topics, the fourteenpapersinthisvolumeillustratehowmuchcanbesaidabout Ennius’ poem and its place in literary history, independent of any commitment toinevitably speculative totalizing interpretations. is a Professor in the Department of Classical StudiesattheUniversityofPennsylvania.Sheisanexpertinhistori- ographyandaneditorandtranslatorofLatintexts.Shehaspublished on Tacitus (Histories [Cambridge, ], Agricola [], Annals []) and Caesar’s Civil War (a monograph, with Will Batstone [], an Oxford Classical Text [], and a Loeb Classical Library edition []). is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an expert on Latinpoetrywhofocusesonepicandrelatedgenres.Heisco-editor, with Dee Clayman, of a forthcoming history of Classical literature and is a former President of the Society for Classical Studies and current editorof theAmerican Journal ofPhilology. ’ ENNIUS ANNALS Poetry and History CYNTHIA DAMON UniversityofPennsylvania JOSEPH FARRELL UniversityofPennsylvania UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India AnsonRoad,#–/,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©CambridgeUniversityPress Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData :Damon,Cynthia,–editor.|Farrell,Joseph,–editor. :Ennius’Annals:poetryandhistory/editedbyCynthiaDamon,JosephFarrell. :NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,.|Includesbibliographical referencesandindex. :(print)|(ebook)| (hardback)|(paperback)|(epub) ::Ennius,Quintus.Annales. :.(print)|(ebook)|/.–dc LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. in memoriam E. Courtney, – G. N. Knauer, – Contents List of Contributors page ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction: History and Poetry in Ennius’ Annals Joseph Farrell and Cynthia Damon Hybrid Ennius: Cultural and Poetic Multiplicity in the Annals Patrick Glauthier History, Philosophy, and the Annals Virginia Fabrizi The Gods in Ennius Joseph Farrell Allegory and Authority in Latin Verse-Historiography Thomas Biggs Reading Ennius’ Annals and Cato’s Origins at Rome Jackie Elliott Looking for auctoritas in Ennius’ Annals Cynthia Damon Ennius’ Annals as Source and Model for Historical Speech Lydia Spielberg vii viii Contents Ennius and the fata librorum Sander M. Goldberg How Ennian Was Latin Epic between the Annals and Lucretius? Jason S.Nethercut Livy’s Ennius Ayelet Haimson Lushkov Ennius’ Annals and Tacitus’ Annals A. J.Woodman Ennius and Lucilius: Good Companion/Bad Companion BrianW. Breed Ennius’ Annals as Historical Evidence in Ancient and Modern Commentaries JessicaH. Clark Commenting on the Annals: Steuart, Skutsch, and Ennius Christina Shuttleworth Kraus Afterword MaryJaeger Works Cited General Index Index Locorum
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