Ennius and the Tradition of Republican Epic

Ennius Noster ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 17-44
Author(s):  
Jason S. Nethercut
Keyword(s):  
Final Analysis ◽  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Latin Epic

This chapter re-examines the influence of Ennius on subsequent Latin epic poetry before Lucretius, showing that this influence is far less apparent and much more nuanced than has been generally assumed. Close analysis of the fragments of post-Ennian Republican epic shows that engagement with the Annales during this period was dynamic and eristic, rather than reflexive and inevitable. In the final analysis, this chapter argues for a new conceptualization of the literary terrain into which Lucretius embarks in writing his poem, one marked by creative engagement with the Annales.

Neulateinische Epik zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg, oder: Wer ist der Feind?

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-256
Author(s):  
Florian Schaffenrath
Keyword(s):  
Epic Poetry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Epic Poem ◽  
Latin Epic

Abstract In contrast to the literary production in certain vernacular languages like French or German, the period of the Thirty Years’ War was a very productive period for Neo-Latin epic poetry. Two examples discussed in this article elucidate the different purposes of these poems: With his Turcias (Paris 1625) Francois Le Clerc Du Tremblay tried to unite the European Christian rulers and to convince them of a common and united war against the Turks. On the other hand, the Jesuit Jacques d’Amiens published in Douai in 1648 his Bellum Germanicum, the first (and only) part of an epic poem that supports the Catholic part in the Thirty Years’ War. A comparison of the depiction of the enemies in particular in these two poems makes the differences visible.

Transcendency of conceptual framework: some reflections on the non-translatability of Latin epic poetry

Tekstualia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Aneta Kliszcz ◽  
Joanna Komorowska
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Latin Epic ◽  
Independence Results ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The essay explores questions related to the intrinsic elusiveness of intertextual dimensions of Latin imperial poety. Starting with the existing Polish translations of imperial epic poets (Lucan, Silius, Statius) it considers the relationship of thir opening verses to the iconic Arma virumque cano… of Virgil’s Aeneid thus unveiling the massive semantic and poetic losses suffered by the target text, as its newfound independence results in the loss of an essential and purposeful connection with the ‘master poem’.

Valerius Flaccus—Poet of Romance

1938 ◽  
Vol 7 (21) ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
J. M. K. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Epic Poetry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Long Poem ◽  
National Pride ◽  
Pliny The Younger ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Valerius Flaccus ◽  
Latin Epic

The period of the Flavian emperors (A.D. 69–96) was distinguished by a notable revival of epic poetry. No fewer than three poets, whose work is extant, flourished contemporaneously—Statius, Valerius, and Silius. It was indeed an age of literary figures, including Martial, Pliny the Younger, Quin-tilian, and Tacitus. Statius and Valerius are interesting as epic poets in that they broke away from the tradition of national and patriotic poetry prescribed for their art from the time of Ennius. Silius, on the other hand, remained true to the convention of Latin epic, and, in an age when the stimulus of national pride was losing its effect on poetry, produced a long poem that lacked originality and inspiration.

scholarly journals Artistic Expression of the Translatio imperii Concept in the Latin Epic Poetry of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th Century and the European Literary Context

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
Nekraševič-Karotkaja Žanna
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Latin Epic ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
Renaissance Epic ◽  
Grand Duchy

In this article the author analyzes how the Renaissance epic poetry of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth approaches the theme of translatio imperii, which is a concept and a political stereotype of transfer of metaphysical world domination from country to country. After the fall of Constantinople (1453), the concept of translatio imperii gradually lost its universal character and was interpreted within the confines of a nation. Among the analyzed poems are: Bellum Prutenum (1516) by Ioannes Visliciensis and Radivilias (1592) by Ioannes Radvanus. The artistic expression of both the “Jagiellonian” and Lithuanian (i.e., Grand Duchy of Lithuania) patriotism, which incorporated the concept of translatio imperii, had an enormous impact on the formation of the national identity of the Belarusian, Lithuanian, and Polish peoples.

scholarly journals Topos "locus amoenus" w łacińskiej poezji chrześcijańskiego antyku

Vox Patrum ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-198
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Gacia
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Agricultural Work ◽  
Locus Amoenus ◽  
Latin Epic ◽  
The City

This paper deals with the topos of locus amoenus in Latin poetry of Christian antiquity. Descriptions of idealized landscape can be found in whole literary tradition from Homer on. In Latin epic poetry Virgil used this device to describe Elysium, which Aeneas enters in the Aeneid. In Virgil’s eclogues locus amoenus is a place of refuge for shepherds from calamities of fate and an alien world. For the farmer in his Georgics it is a reward for honest agricultural work. For Horace it was an escape from the noise of the city. For Christian poets, Prudentius in Cathemerinon, Sedulius in Carmen paschale, Avitus of Vienne, Dracontius, Venantius Fortunatus and other, locus amoenus becomes the biblical paradise in the eschatological sense, or morę generally, salvation. Use of the topos of locus amoenus shows the cultural continuity of antiquity. In Christian poetry this theme is filled with a new content, but the process of thinking and artistic creation remains they share with classical authors.

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