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Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume I (Hardcover)
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Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume I (Hardcover)
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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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.
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