Ennius Beyond Epic
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 10 December 2025
- 18 December 2025
- ISBN:
- 9781009586153
- 9781009586160
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.727kg, 348 Pages
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- Subjects:
- Classical Studies, Classical Literature
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Quintus Ennius (239–169 BCE) was Latin literature's extraordinary founding father: he composed a striking array of texts in a striking array of genres (tragedy, satire, philosophy, epigram, epic, and more), many of which he in fact introduced to, or invented at, Rome. Modern scholarship, however, has focused overwhelmingly on just one Ennian poem: his epic, the Annales. Assembling an international team of literary critics and philologists, Ennius Beyond Epic provides the first assessment of Ennius' corpus in all of its unruly totality. Its thirteen chapters range widely: some examine themes throughout the poet's fragmentary output; others offer analyses of particular non-epic texts (e.g., Andromacha, Sacra historia, Saturae); still others study the Roman reception of Ennius' corpus from Pacuvius to Catullus to Apuleius and beyond. The picture that emerges is of a New Ennius: a daring, experimental, and multiform author.
Reviews
‘Ennius was the fons et origo of all later Latin poets and yet he only survives in fragments. Scholars who have worked hard on his Annales have not accorded the same attention to the rest of his oeuvre, and this book aims to restore the balance … It is no disrespect to these scholars to say that their work is but the first step on the long road of discovering the value and the riches within the hitherto neglected non-epic writings of this foundational poet. It is to be hoped that this book will inspire them and others to dig ever deeper into the text and the reception of this extraordinary work.’
John Godwin Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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