Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales

Informationen zum Autor Jackie Elliott is an Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She works primarily on Roman literary history and the interaction of the epic and historiographical traditions at Rome. She has received fellowships from the American Academy at Rome and the Loeb Foundation. Klappentext This book combines a critical survey of the ancient sources for Ennius' Annales with fresh interpretation of the surviving record. Zusammenfassung This book explores the interpretative consequences of the ancient and modern treatment of Ennius' fragmentary but hugely influential epic! the Annales. It argues that its manifest impact on the collective Roman psyche results from its innovative promotion of a vision of Rome as the primary focus of the cosmos in all its aspects. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Ennius and the annalistic tradition at Rome; 2. The Vergiliocentric sources and the question of the evidence: Ennius and the epic tradition of Greece and Rome; 3. The pre-Vergilian sources; 4. The Annales as historiography: Ennius and the invention of the Roman past; 5. Imperium sine fine: the Annales and universal history; Epilogue; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Jackie Elliott, Jackie (University of Colorado Boulder) Elliott, Elliott Jackie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2016
• EAN: 9781316613498
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61349-8
• No. of pages: 606
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literature: history & criticism, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets