Fragmentary Republican Latin / Ennius ; edited and translated by Sander M. Goldberg and Gesine Manuwald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ennius, Quintus, author.

Contributor:

Goldberg, Sander M., editor, translator.

Manuwald, Gesine, editor, translator.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 294, 537.

Loeb Classical Library ; 294, 537

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin language, Preclassical to ca. 100 B.C.

Latin language.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

New edition.

Other Title:

Remains of old Latin with an English translation by E.H. Warmington.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

Quintus Ennius (239-169), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity, domesticating the Greek forms of epic and drama, and pursuing a range of other literary and intellectual pursuits. He inspired major developments in Roman religion, social organization, and popular culture. Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired major developments in Roman religion, social organization, and popular culture. Brought in 204 to Rome in the entourage of Cato, Ennius took up residence on the Aventine and, fluent in his native Oscan as well as Greek and Latin, became one of the first teachers to introduce Greek learning to Romans through public readings of Greek and Latin texts. Best known for domesticating Greek epic and drama, Ennius also pursued a wide range of literary endeavors and found success in almost all of them. His tragedies were long regarded as classics of the genre, and his Annals gave Roman epic its canonical shape and pioneered many of its most characteristic features. Other works included philosophical works in prose and verse, epigrams, didactic poems, dramas on Roman themes (praetextae), and occasional poetry that informed the later development of satire. This two-volume edition of Ennius, which inaugurates the Loeb series Fragmentary Republican Latin, replaces that of Warmington in Remains of Old Latin, Volume I and offers fresh texts, translations, and annotation that are fully current with modern scholarship.

Contents:

v. I. Ennius, Testimonia. Epic Fragments

v. II. Ennius, Dramatic Fragments. Minor Works

Notes:

Fragmentary Republican Latin will gradually supersede the original Loeb edition of Remains of Old Latin / translated by E.H. Warmington.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Fragmentary Republican Latin.

OCLC:

1018400121

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