Shaggy crowns : Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid / by Nora Goldschmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldschmidt, Nora, author.

Series:

Oxford classical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ennius, Quintus. Annales.

Ennius, Quintus.

Virgil. Aeneis.

Virgil.

Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Latin.

Intertextuality.

Collective memory in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 258 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Shaggy Crowns is the first book-length study in almost a hundred years of the relationship between Rome's two great epic poems. Quintus Ennius was once the monumental epic poet of Republican Rome, 'the father of Roman poetry'. However, around one hundred and fifty years after his epic Annales first appeared, it was replaced decisively by Virgil's Aeneid, and now survives only in fragments. Looking at the intersections between intertextuality and the appropriations of cultural memory, Goldschmidt considers the relationship between Rome's two great canonical epics. She focuses on how-in the use of archaism, the presentation of landscape, embedded memories of the Punic Wars, and fragments of exempla- Virgil's poem appropriates and re-writes the myths and memories which Ennius had enshrined in Roman epic. Goldschmidt argues that Virgil was not just a slicker 'new poet', but constructed himself as an older 'archaic poet' of the deepest memories of the Roman past, ultimately competing for the 'shaggy crown' of Ennius. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Fragments 1

II Ennius und Vergilius 5

III Shaggy Crowns 7

IV Intertextuality and Cultural Memory 9

1 Reading Ennius in the First Century BC 17

I Introduction 17

II Reading Ennius (I): The Republic 18

III Reading Ennius (II): Augustan Rome 28

IV Conclusion 35

2 'Archaic' Poets 37

I Introduction 37

II Ennius and his Precursors 40

III Vates, Fauni, and the New 'Archaic' Poet 50

IV Archaic Languages 61

V Conclusion 66

3 Sites of Rome 69

I Introduction 69

II Place and the Annales 72

III Virgilian Archaeologies: Ennius and the Tiber 78

IV 'Roma prima di Roma' 90

V Conclusion 100

4 'Punica' 101

I Introduction 101

II 'Punica' in Ennius and Naevius 105

III Sicily 109

i Periegesis 110

ii War Games 115

IV War in Italy 127

i Beginnings: Aeneid 7 and Annales 7 131

ii Middles: Hannibal ad portas 139

iii Ends: Aeneas, Turnus, and Zama 144

V Conclusion 148

5 Epic Examples 149

I Introduction 149

II Ennius and Exemplary Epic 154

III Summaries and Repetitions 166

IV Turnus and the Ennian Example 179

i Fighting for Rome: Horatius Codes and his Emulators 180

ii The Death of Turnus: Ennian Examples and Decian Paradigms 187

V Conclusion 192.

Notes:

"This book began as a DPhil thesis written at Magdalen College, Oxford." --Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-243) and index.

ISBN:

9780199681297

0199681295

OCLC:

858310088