This book combines a critical survey of the ancient sources for Ennius' Annales with fresh interpretation of the surviving record.

Ennius' Annales, which is preserved only in fragments, was hugely influential on Roman literature and culture. This book explores the genesis, in the ancient so

Brings together historical and literary perspectives to begin charting a new course for research on Ennius' masterpiece.

In the context of recent challenges to long-standing assumptions about the nature of Ennius' Annals and the editorial methods appropriate to the poem's fragment

Consensus holds that Lucretius admired the literary prestige of Homeric epos, the form that Ennius famously introduced to Latin literature. However, some hold t