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Ennius noster : Lucretius and the Annales / Jason S. Nethercut.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nethercut, Jason S., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Latin.
- Ennius, Quintus--Influence.
- Ennius, Quintus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Ennius and the tradition of Republican epic
- Lucretius on the Ennian cosmos
- Ennian historiography in Lucretius
- Ennian poetology and literary affiliation in Lucretius.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nethercut, Jason S., Ennius noster
- ISBN:
- 0-19-751772-2
- 0-19-751770-6
- 0-19-751771-4
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