’ ENNIUS ANNALS Poetry and History In the context of recent challenges to long-standing assumptions aboutthenatureofEnnius’Annalsandtheeditorialmethodsappro- priatetothepoem’sfragmentaryremains,thisvolumeseekstomove Ennian studies forward on three axes: first, a re-evaluation of the literary and historical precedents for and building blocks of Ennius’ poeminordertorevisethehistoryofearlyLatinliterature;second,a cross-fertilization of recent critical approaches to the fields of poetry and historiography; third, reflection on the tools and methods that willbestservefutureliteraryandhistoricalresearchontheAnnalsand its reception. With different approaches to these broad topics, the fourteenpapersinthisvolumeillustratehowmuchcanbesaidabout Ennius’ poem and its place in literary history, independent of any commitment toinevitably speculative totalizing interpretations.   is a Professor in the Department of Classical StudiesattheUniversityofPennsylvania.Sheisanexpertinhistori- ographyandaneditorandtranslatorofLatintexts.Shehaspublished on Tacitus (Histories  [Cambridge, ], Agricola [], Annals []) and Caesar’s Civil War (a monograph, with Will Batstone [], an Oxford Classical Text [], and a Loeb Classical Library edition []).   is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. 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Knauer, – Contents List of Contributors page ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction: History and Poetry in Ennius’ Annals  Joseph Farrell and Cynthia Damon      Hybrid Ennius: Cultural and Poetic Multiplicity in the Annals  Patrick Glauthier  History, Philosophy, and the Annals  Virginia Fabrizi  The Gods in Ennius  Joseph Farrell      Allegory and Authority in Latin Verse-Historiography  Thomas Biggs  Reading Ennius’ Annals and Cato’s Origins at Rome  Jackie Elliott  Looking for auctoritas in Ennius’ Annals  Cynthia Damon  Ennius’ Annals as Source and Model for Historical Speech  Lydia Spielberg vii viii Contents      Ennius and the fata librorum  Sander M. Goldberg  How Ennian Was Latin Epic between the Annals and Lucretius?  Jason S.Nethercut  Livy’s Ennius  Ayelet Haimson Lushkov  Ennius’ Annals and Tacitus’ Annals  A. J.Woodman      Ennius and Lucilius: Good Companion/Bad Companion  BrianW. Breed  Ennius’ Annals as Historical Evidence in Ancient and Modern Commentaries  JessicaH. Clark  Commenting on the Annals: Steuart, Skutsch, and Ennius  Christina Shuttleworth Kraus Afterword  MaryJaeger Works Cited  General Index  Index Locorum  Contributors   is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia.  .  is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachu- setts, Amherst.  .  is Associate Professor of Classics at Florida State University.   is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.   is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.   is Cultore della Materia in Classical Philology at the University of Pavia.   isProfessorofClassicalStudiesandM.MarkandEsther K. Watkins Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.   is Assistant Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College.  .  is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA.    is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin.   is Professor of Classics at the University of Oregon.    is Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin at Yale University. ix x List of Contributors  .  is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of South Florida.   is Assistant Professor of Classics at UCLA. . .  isBasilL.GildersleeveProfessorofClassics,Emeritusat, the University of Virginia.