Ennius Noster - Lucretius and the Annales

Contrary to critical consensus, Jason S. Nethercut argues that throughout the De Rerum Natura, Lucretius' use of Ennius' Annales as a formal model for a long discursive poem in epic meter was neither inevitable nor predictable, and was in fact used to dismantle the values for which Ennius stood.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Ennius and the Tradition of Republican Epic


• Chapter 2: Lucretius on the Ennian Cosmos


• Chapter 3: Ennian Historiography in Lucretius


• Chapter 4: Ennian Poetology and Literary Affiliation in Lucretius


• Conclusion


• Appendices


• Works Cited

About the author

Jason Nethercut is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of South Florida.

Summary

Contrary to critical consensus, Jason S. Nethercut argues that throughout the De Rerum Natura, Lucretius' use of Ennius' Annales as a formal model for a long discursive poem in epic meter was neither inevitable nor predictable, and was in fact used to dismantle the values for which Ennius stood.

Product details

• Authors: Jason S. Nethercut, Jason S. (Assistant Professor of Classi Nethercut
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2021
• EAN: 9780197517697
• ISBN: 978-0-19-751769-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; HISTORY / Ancient / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient, classical and medieval texts