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Contrary to critical consensus, Jason S. Nethercut argues that throughout the De Rerum Natura, Lucretius' use of Ennius' Annales as a formal model for a long discursive poem in epic meter was neither inevitable nor predictable, and was in fact used...
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Contrary to critical consensus, Jason S. Nethercut argues that throughout the De Rerum Natura, Lucretius' use of Ennius' Annales as a formal model for a long discursive poem in epic meter was neither inevitable nor predictable, and was in fact used to dismantle the values for which Ennius stood.
Contrary to critical consensus, Jason S. Nethercut argues that throughout the De Rerum Natura, Lucretius' use of Ennius' Annales as a formal model for a long discursive poem in epic meter was neither inevitable nor predictable, and was in fact used...
mehr
Contrary to critical consensus, Jason S. Nethercut argues that throughout the De Rerum Natura, Lucretius' use of Ennius' Annales as a formal model for a long discursive poem in epic meter was neither inevitable nor predictable, and was in fact used to dismantle the values for which Ennius stood. Cover -- Ennius Noster: Lucretius and the Annales z -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ennius and the Tradition of Republican Epic -- 2. Lucretius on the Ennian Cosmos -- 3. Ennian Historiography in Lucretius -- 4. Ennian Poetology and Literary Affiliation in Lucretius -- Conclusion: Reconstructing Lucretius' Annales -- Appendices -- Works Cited -- Index of Passages -- Index of Topics.