... 176 180 and n sapientia Appius Claudius Caecus dream gens Aemilia αἱμυλία Ennius Homer in Ennius Olivier Laurence Pliny the elder Burkert Walter Lucretius C Sulpicius Galus brassica Pythagorea M Fulvius Nobilior Anaxagoras Democritus Empedocles Aulus Gellius P Nigidius Figulus M...

... by Ennius and refined by Virgil, and the translations of these passages by Dryden and Pope. The refinement of the Augustans — Roman and English — is thrown into relief in contrast to previous translators in this tradition including Chapman. Finally, the strengths and limitations of Pope's Augustan style...

...Chapter 1 surveys the place of Homer in Roman literary culture before Ovid, including the prominent place of the Iliad and Odyssey in early education and the role played by Livius Andronicus and Ennius in bringing the Greek past to Rome. It offers an overview...

...Ennius Noster: Lucretius and the Annales. Jason S. Nethercut, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197517697.001.0001. This chapter approaches Lucretius’ engagement with Ennius on Lucretius’ own terms and explores how the Annales serves...

... Heautontimorumenos, a play put on at the Roman festival of Cybele in 163 BCE. Other plays of Terence as well as the fragments of Caecilius Statius and Ennius add depth and context to the discussion. The chapter argues that Clinia’s lovelorn wandering presents an amusing image of Greek military activities...

...) and, later, a priamel of several of the Roman poets he will best: cedet Musa rudis ferocis Enni et docti furor arduus Lucreti, et qui per freta duxit Argonautas, et qui corpora prima transfigurat. quid? maius loquar: ipsa te Latinis Aeneis uenerabitur canentem. The rough Muse of fierce Ennius will give way...

... are listed. Discussion then turns to intertextuality. Seemingly “neoteric” allusions to the works of Plautus, Livius Andronicus, and Ennius are linked to the avant-garde Greek poetics of Alexandria via the poetry of Ennius, who died three years before Terence’s debut. With an eye to the academic context...

... poet Ennius of Rudiae (Epicharmus). The chapter concludes by considering the dissolution of Pythagorean philosophy in Italy, and its replacement by Epicureanism, in the late second century BCE. References Battezatto, L. ( 2008 ). “ Pythagorean Comedies from Epicharmus to Alexis...

... Lucretius Ennius’ Annales Saturnian meter Catullus Neoterics similes vision pull back shepherds sound effects Homer sound locus amoenus Aeneas Eclogues Georgics Servius chiasm despicere editing techniques of high angle shot low angle shot nobility vertical spacing inuidia Turnus...

...This chapter examines the classical and medieval sources of Petrarch in writing his epic poem Africa. It brings to the fore the role of Dante's epic in Petrarch's poem and suggests that the prominence of poet characters such as Ennius and Homer, and the link between poet and hero...

... eclipses Ennius Lucretius moon Plato soul Sulpicius Gallus sun Antikythera device or mechanism instruments measuring planets predict ions prognosticate stars Censorinus Eratosthenes Eudoxus of Knidos Mercury the planet Philolaus Posidonius of Apamea and later Rhodes M Porcius Cato...

... by Ennius, are probed for their capacity to convey resistance to the hellenization represented by hexameters, and similar implications attach to Lucilius' decision to adopt the hexameter as the default form for satire, but a hexameter which is a travesty of the magnificent vehicle of epic: later satirists...

... vulgar abuse, but it is thanks to Juvenal that satire is seen as above all political, angry, and funny. comedy Greek iambic poetry Quintilian Ennius Lucilius Catullus Juvenal Persius sexual morality Catullus Ennius Greek Juvenal Lucilius Persius Quintilian satire This chapter will trace...

...Specific adaptation takes place within a stylistic framework provided by author or period. The ‘pointed style’ illustrates a stylistic framework taken by Latin from Greek, but commonly a Greek author is adapted into a quite different way of writing. Ennius' and Seneca's reworkings of Euripides...

...Analysis of mediality in Callimachus, Ennius, Lucretius, and Catullus maps the traditions inherited by the Augustan poets. While Callimachus embraces song and its association with divine inspiration but still presents his writing practices realistically, the early Roman poets assume...

... offers in microcosm a fine illustration of Vergil’s ability to combine self-conscious comment on his own status as a poet and his place within poetic traditions with reflections on both religion and cultivation, the two major themes of this book. Vergil ENNIUS VERGIL Ennius epic Homer tree felling...

...This chapter lays the foundation of the discussion by analysing the evidence for the position of Ennius’ Annales in Roman reading culture before and shortly after the appearance of the Aeneid. Examining evidence ranging from inscription to quotation, it becomes...

...The postscript concludes by looking briefly at Ennius’ post-textual afterlife. It recaps the overall argument of the book and revisits the issue of fragmentary texts and the possible distortions of reception, arguing for the importance of entertaining hypothetical contexts for the fragments even...

.... The chapter begins with treatment of Caesar’s visit to Troy in Book 9, a passage including Lucan’s most explicit statement about his place in the epic tradition. Here, through a series of evocative allusions, he places his work alongside and indeed beyond the epics of Ovid, Virgil, Ennius, and Homer—the last...

... Punicum, as well as Ennius’s Annales: Rome’s emerging control of the sea. Recent scholarly work has looked at the confluence of Rome’s “maritime moment” in the third century bce and its epic moment, that is, the near simultaneous emergence of Roman ascendancy on the sea...