Fragmentary Republican Latin
By: Ennius ; edited and translated by Sander M. Goldberg, Gesine Manuwald
Contributors: Goldberg, Sander M., editor, translator; Manuwald, Gesine, editor, translator; Ennius, Quintus; Ennius, Quintus
Series: Fragmentary republican Latin -- I-II; Loeb classical library -- 294, 537; Fragmentary republican Latin -- 1-2.; Loeb classical library -- 294.; Loeb classical library -- 537.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng; lat
ISBN-13: 9780674997011; 9780674997141
Copyright date: 2018
Other titles: Container of (work): Testimonia.; Container of (work): Epic fragments.; Container of (work): Dramatic fragments.; Container of (work): Minor works.; Contained in (expression): Fragments. English.; Contained in (expression): Fragments. Latin.
Work titles: Works
Description: "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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages xxxix-lxxxviii) and index.

Texts (extant fragments of the works of Quintus Ennius) in Latin, with English translations on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
Table of contents: title: I.; title: Testimonia ;; title: Epic fragments -- -- II.; title: Dramatic fragments ;; title: Minor works.