S. M. Goldberg (éd.), Fragmentary Republican Latin, Vol. I: Ennius, Testimonia. Epic Fragments

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Sander M. Goldberg (éd.), Fragmentary Republican Latin. Volume I: Ennius, Testimonia. Epic Fragments, Cambridge (Ma), 2018.

Éditeur : Harvard University Press
Collection : Loeb Classical Library 294
475 pages
ISBN : 9780674997011
21 €

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.


Table of Contents :

Series Introduction [Gesine Manuwald, Series Editor]
Aims and Objectives of the Edition
Editorial Problems and Solutions
Editorial Practice
Technical Points
Further Reading
Introduction to Ennius
Life
Works: An Overview
Reception
Editions and Commentaries
This Edition
Bibliography
1. Editions Including Fragments of Ennius
2. Editions of Transmitting Authors
3. Secondary Literature: Works Cited
Testimonia
Epic Fragments
The Annals
Introduction and Note on the Text
Annals 1–18
Unplaced Fragments of the Annals
Doubtful Fragments of the Annals
Concordances

 

 

Source : Harvard University Press