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OverviewShaggy 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nora Goldschmidt (Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, Durham University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.462kg ISBN: 9780199681297ISBN 10: 0199681295 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 12 December 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbrieviations Introduction 1: Reading Ennius in the First Century BC 2: 'Archaic' Poets 3: Sites of Rome 4: Punica 5: Epic Examples Postscript Appendix Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationNora Goldschmidt is a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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