EBOOK Shaggy Crowns: Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid
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Ennius&' Annales and Virgil&'s Aeneid
Shaggy Crowns is the first book-length study in almost a hundred years of the relationship between Rome&'s two great epic poems. Quintus Ennius was once the monumental epic poet of Republican Rome, &'the father of Roman poetry&'. However, around one hundred and fifty years after his epic Annales first appeared, it was replaced decisively by Virgil&'s Aeneid, and now survives only in fragments. Looking at the intersections between intertextuality and the appropriations of cultural memory, Goldschmidt considers the relationship between Rome&'s two great canonical epics. She focuses on how - in the use of archaism, the presentation of landscape, embedded memories of the Punic Wars, and fragments of exempla - Virgil&'s poem appropriates and re-writes the myths and memories which Ennius had enshrined in Roman epic. Goldschmidt argues that Virgil was not just a slicker &'new poet&',but constructed himself as an older &'archaic poet&' of the deepest memories of the Roman past, ultimately competing for the &'shaggy crown&' of Ennius.
Shaggy Crowns is the first book-length study in almost a hundred years of the relationship between Rome&'s two great epic poems. Quintus Ennius was once the monumental epic poet of Republican Rome, &'the father of Roman poetry&'. However, around one hundred and fifty years after his epic Annales first appeared, it was replaced decisively by Virgil&'s Aeneid, and now survives only in fragments. Looking at the intersections between intertextuality and the appropriations of cultural memory, Goldschmidt considers the relationship between Rome&'s two great canonical epics. She focuses on how - in the use of archaism, the presentation of landscape, embedded memories of the Punic Wars, and fragments of exempla - Virgil&'s poem appropriates and re-writes the myths and memories which Ennius had enshrined in Roman epic. Goldschmidt argues that Virgil was not just a slicker &'new poet&',but constructed himself as an older &'archaic poet&' of the deepest memories of the Roman past, ultimately competing for the &'shaggy crown&' of Ennius.