Ennius beyond epic / edited by Jesse Hill, C. W. Marshall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hill, Jesse (Classicist), editor.

Marshall, C. W., 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ennius, Quintus--Criticism and interpretation.

Ennius, Quintus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Quintus Ennius (239-169 BCE) was Latin literature's extraordinary founding father: he composed a striking array of texts in a striking array of genres (tragedy, satire, philosophy, epigram, epic, and more), many of which he in fact introduced to, or invented at, Rome. Modern scholarship, however, has focused overwhelmingly on just one Ennian poem: his epic, the Annales. Assembling an international team of literary critics and philologists, Ennius Beyond Epic provides the first assessment of Ennius' corpus in all of its unruly totality. Its thirteen chapters range widely: some examine themes throughout the poet's fragmentary output; others offer analyses of particular non-epic texts (e.g., Andromacha, Sacra historia, Saturae); still others study the Roman reception of Ennius' corpus from Pacuvius to Catullus to Apuleius and beyond. The picture that emerges is of a New Ennius: a daring, experimental, and multiform author.

Contents:

Introduction : Ennius over-Annalized / C.W. Marshall, Jesse Hill

Part I. Multiform Ennius. Romeing across genres / Thomas Biggs

Generic (non-)distinctions in Ennius / Gesine Manuwald

Scipio invicte! : Ennius and the poetry of praise / Sander Goldberg

The reception of Ennius' Saturae and Varia in antiquity / Alessandro Russo

Varro's Menippean Ennius / Jesse Hill

Part II. Tragic Ennius. Anatomizing the Ennian corpus : medical theory and the body in the tragedies / Robert Cowan

Ennian tragedy as musical theater / Timothy J. Moore

Staging orbitas in Ennius' Andromacha / Lauren Donovan Ginsberg

Ennius tragicus from Pacuvius to Lucretius / Jason Nethercut

Part III. Personal Ennius. Euhemeristic translations : Ennius as interpres in the Sacra historia / Stephen Blair

Ennius' Saturae and the registers of personal poetry / Anna Chahoud

Fish fiddle-de-dee : the Hedyphagetica and the poetics of seafood at Rome / Ian Goh

Ille ego : Ennian first persons in epic and beyond / Jake Elliot.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Dec 2025).

ISBN:

1-009-58614-9

1-009-58612-2

1-009-58615-7