Ennius' Annals by Cynthia Damon

Ennius' Annals by Cynthia Damon

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Advances the study of Ennius' Annals, a foundational but now fragmentary work of Latin literature, by exploring the cross-fertilization of recent critical approaches to Latin poetry and historiography and by reflecting on the tools and methods conducive to future literary and historical research on the poem.

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Ennius' Annals by Cynthia Damon

In the context of recent challenges to long-standing assumptions about the nature of Ennius' Annals and the editorial methods appropriate to the poem's fragmentary remains, this volume seeks to move Ennian studies forward on three axes. First, a re-evaluation of the literary and historical precedents for and building blocks of Ennius' poem in order to revise the history of early Latin literature. Second, a cross-fertilization of recent critical approaches to the fields of poetry and historiography. Third, reflection on the tools and methods that will best serve future literary and historical research on the Annals and its reception. Adopting different approaches to these broad topics, the fourteen papers in this volume illustrate how much can be said about Ennius' poem and its place in literary history independent of any commitment to inevitably speculative totalizing interpretations.
Cynthia Damon is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an expert in historiography and an editor and translator of Latin texts. She has published on Tacitus – Histories 1 (Cambridge, 2002), Agricola (2017) and Annals (2012) – and Caesar's Civil War – Caesar's Civil War (with Will Batstone, 2006), an Oxford Classical Text (2015), and a Loeb Classical Library edition (2016). Joseph Farrell is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an expert on Latin poetry who focuses on epic and related genres. He is co-editor, with Dee Clayman, of a forthcoming history of Classical literature and is a former President of the Society for Classical Studies and current editor of the American Journal of Philology.
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ISBN 13 9781108723169
ISBN 10 1108723160
Title Ennius' Annals
Author Cynthia Damon
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2023-04-06
Number of pages 365
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