Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02748-0 - Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales Jackie Elliott Frontmatter More information ENNIUS AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE ANNALES Ennius’ Annales, which is preserved only in fragments, was hugely influential on Roman literature and culture. This book explores the genesis, in the ancient sources for Ennius’ epic and in modern scholar- ship, of the accounts of the Annales with which we operate today. A series of appendixes detail each source’s contribution to our record of the poem, and are used to consider how the interests and working methods of the principal sources shape the modern view of the poem and to re-examine the limits imposed and the possibilities offered by this ancient evidence. Dr Elliott challenges standard views of the poem, such as its use of time and the disposition of the gods within it. She argues that the manifest impact of the Annales on the collective Roman psyche results from its innovative promotion of a vision of Rome as the primary focus of the cosmos in all its aspects. jackie elliott is an Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She works primarily on Roman literary history and the interaction of the epic and historiographical traditions at Rome. She has received fellowships from the American Academy in Rome and the Loeb Foundation. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02748-0 - Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales Jackie Elliott Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02748-0 - Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales Jackie Elliott Frontmatter More information ENNIUS AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE ANNALES JACKIE ELLIOTT University of Colorado at Boulder © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02748-0 - Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales Jackie Elliott Frontmatter More information University Printing House, Cambridge CB28BS, United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107027480 © Jackie Elliott 2013 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2013 Printed in the United Kingdom by CPI Group Ltd, Croydon CR04YY A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Elliott, Jackie, 1973– Ennius and the architecture of the Annales / Jackie Elliott. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-107-02748-0 1. Ennius, Quintus Annales. 2. Ennius, Quintus – Criticism and interpretation. 3. Historical poetry, Latin – History and criticism. 4. Rome – In literature. I. Title. PA6382.E44 2013 8710.0109–dc23 2012035449 isbn 978-1-107-02748-0 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02748-0 - Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales Jackie Elliott Frontmatter More information For RLS: In gratitude and grief © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02748-0 - Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales Jackie Elliott Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02748-0 - Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales Jackie Elliott Frontmatter More information Contents List of tables page viii List of abbreviations x Acknowledgements xii Introduction 1 1 Ennius and the annalistic tradition at Rome 18 2 The Vergiliocentric sources and the question of the evidence: Ennius and the epic tradition of Greece and Rome 75 3 The pre-Vergilian sources 135 4 The Annales as historiography: Ennius and the invention of the Roman past 198 5 Imperium sine fine: the Annales and universal history 233 Epilogue 295 Appendixes 1 Triadic structure and the organisation of the text according to established scholarship 298 2 The gods in the Annales 303 3 The organisation of the fragments: evidence and conjecture 308 4 The chronology of the sources 342 5 Fragments organised by source 348 Bibliography 559 Index 575 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02748-0 - Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales Jackie Elliott Frontmatter More information Tables 3.1 The pre-Vergilian sources page 136 3.2 The etymological, lexicographical and grammatical sources for the Annales 145 A1.1 Triadic structure and the organisation of the text according to established scholarship 299 A2.1 Fragments uncontroversially relating to divine intervention 304 A2.2 Fragments relating to Homerising gods without necessarily entailing direct divine intervention in the narrative 305 A3.1 Fragments attributed to a particular book by their source(s) 309 A3.2 Reasonable modern attributions to particular books 324 A3.3 Fragments we have no sound means of placing 330 A4.1 The pre-Vergilian sources for the Annales 342 A4.2 The post-Vergilian sources for the Annales 345 A5.1 Varro 350 A5.2 Rhetorica ad Herennium 363 A5.3 Cicero 365 A5.4 Bellum Hispaniense 398 A5.5 Seneca 400 A5.6 Pliny the Elder 402 A5.7 Quintilian 403 A5.8 Fronto 407 A5.9 Apuleius 412 A5.10 Gellius 413 A5.11 Festus 428 A5.12 Tertullian 445 A5.13 Fragmentum de Metris 446 A5.14 Sacerdos 447 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02748-0 - Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales Jackie Elliott Frontmatter More information List of tables ix A5.15 Atilius Fortunatianus 448 A5.16 Nonius 451 A5.17 Donatus 461 A5.18 Ps.-Probus 463 A5.19 Ausonius 466 A5.20 Charisius 468 A5.21 Diomedes 474 A5.22 Augustine 478 A5.23 Servius 480 A5.24 Macrobius 491 A5.25 Ps.-Macrobius, Exc. Bob. 499 A5.26 ‘Porphyrio’ 501 A5.27 Consentius 504 A5.28 Lactantius Placidus 505 A5.29 Scholia Veronensia 506 A5.30 Priscian 507 A5.31 Scholia Bembina 521 A5.32 Cassiodorus 522 A5.33 De Ultimis Syllabis 523 A5.34 Isidore 524 A5.35 Servius Danielis 527 A5.36 Paulus 539 A5.37 Brevis Expositio 543 A5.38 ‘Donatian’ commentary on Terence 544 A5.39 Scholia Bernensia 546 A5.40 Ps.-Acro 548 A5.41 Scholia to Persius 550 A5.42 Readers of Orosius 553 A5.43 Glossarium Philoxenum 555 A5.44 Commenta Bernensia in Lucanum 556 A5.45 G. Valla 557 A5.46 H. Columna 558 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02748-0 - Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales Jackie Elliott Frontmatter More information Abbreviations A Astbury, R. (ed.) (2002) M. Terentius Varronis Saturarum Menippearum Fragmenta. 2nd edn. Munich Arn. von Arnim, H. (ed.) (1903–24) Stoicorum veterum fragmenta (4 vols.). Leipzig B Barchiesi, M. (ed.) 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