Ennius Noster Lucretius and the Annales |
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| Author:
| Nethercut, Jason S. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-751769-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2021 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $163.59AUD $254.00 |
Book Description:
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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 to dismantle the values for which Ennius stood.