Ennius and the architecture of the Annales

604 Pages·2013·2.55 MB·English

by  Elliott

ENNIUS AND THE ARCHITECTURE
OF THE ANNALES
Ennius’ Annales, which is preserved only in fragments, was hugely
influential on Roman literature and culture. This book explores the
genesis,intheancientsourcesforEnnius’epicandinmodernscholar
ship,oftheaccounts oftheAnnaleswithwhichweoperate today.A
seriesofappendixesdetaileachsource’scontributiontoourrecordof
the poem, and are used to consider how the interests and working
methodsoftheprincipalsourcesshapethemodernviewofthepoem
andtore examinethelimitsimposedandthepossibilitiesofferedby
this ancient evidence. Dr Elliott challenges standard views of the
poem, such as its use of time and thedisposition ofthe gods within
it.ShearguesthatthemanifestimpactoftheAnnalesonthecollective
Roman psyche results from its innovative promotion of a vision of
Romeastheprimaryfocusofthecosmosinallitsaspects.
jackieelliottisanAssistantProfessorinClassicsattheUniversity
of Colorado at Boulder. She works primarily on Roman literary
historyandtheinteractionoftheepicandhistoriographicaltraditions
atRome.ShehasreceivedfellowshipsfromtheAmericanAcademyin
RomeandtheLoebFoundation.

ENNIUS AND THE
ARCHITECTURE OF THE
ANNALES
JACKIE ELLIOTT
UniversityofColoradoatBoulder
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1. Ennius,QuintusAnnales. 2. Ennius,Quintus Criticismandinterpretation.
3. Historicalpoetry,Latin Historyandcriticism. 4. Rome Inliterature. I. Title.
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Contents
Listoftables page viii
Listofabbreviations x
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction 1
1 EnniusandtheannalistictraditionatRome 18
2 TheVergiliocentricsourcesandthequestionoftheevidence:
EnniusandtheepictraditionofGreeceandRome 75
3 Thepre-Vergiliansources 135
4 TheAnnalesashistoriography:Enniusandtheinvention
oftheRomanpast 198
5 Imperiumsinefine:theAnnalesanduniversalhistory 233
Epilogue 295
Appendixes
1 Triadicstructureandtheorganisationofthetextaccording
toestablishedscholarship 298
2 ThegodsintheAnnales 303
3 Theorganisationofthefragments:evidenceandconjecture 308
4 Thechronologyofthesources 342
5 Fragmentsorganisedbysource 348
Bibliography 559
Index 575
vii
Tables
3.1 Thepre-Vergiliansources page 136
3.2 Theetymological,lexicographicalandgrammatical
sourcesfortheAnnales 145
A1.1 Triadicstructureandtheorganisationofthetext
accordingtoestablishedscholarship 299
A2.1 Fragmentsuncontroversiallyrelatingtodivine
intervention 304
A2.2 FragmentsrelatingtoHomerisinggodswithout
necessarilyentailingdirectdivineinterventioninthe
narrative 305
A3.1 Fragmentsattributedtoaparticularbookbytheir
source(s) 309
A3.2 Reasonablemodernattributionstoparticularbooks 324
A3.3 Fragmentswehavenosoundmeansofplacing 330
A4.1 Thepre-VergiliansourcesfortheAnnales 342
A4.2 Thepost-VergiliansourcesfortheAnnales 345
A5.1 Varro 350
A5.2 RhetoricaadHerennium 363
A5.3 Cicero 365
A5.4 BellumHispaniense 398
A5.5 Seneca 400
A5.6 PlinytheElder 402
A5.7 Quintilian 403
A5.8 Fronto 407
A5.9 Apuleius 412
A5.10 Gellius 413
A5.11 Festus 428
A5.12 Tertullian 445
A5.13 FragmentumdeMetris 446
A5.14 Sacerdos 447
viii
Listoftables ix
A5.15 AtiliusFortunatianus 448
A5.16 Nonius 451
A5.17 Donatus 461
A5.18 Ps.-Probus 463
A5.19 Ausonius 466
A5.20 Charisius 468
A5.21 Diomedes 474
A5.22 Augustine 478
A5.23 Servius 480
A5.24 Macrobius 491
A5.25 Ps.-Macrobius,Exc.Bob. 499
A5.26 ‘Porphyrio’ 501
A5.27 Consentius 504
A5.28 LactantiusPlacidus 505
A5.29 ScholiaVeronensia 506
A5.30 Priscian 507
A5.31 ScholiaBembina 521
A5.32 Cassiodorus 522
A5.33 DeUltimisSyllabis 523
A5.34 Isidore 524
A5.35 ServiusDanielis 527
A5.36 Paulus 539
A5.37 BrevisExpositio 543
A5.38 ‘Donatian’commentaryonTerence 544
A5.39 ScholiaBernensia 546
A5.40 Ps.-Acro 548
A5.41 ScholiatoPersius 550
A5.42 ReadersofOrosius 553
A5.43 GlossariumPhiloxenum 555
A5.44 CommentaBernensiainLucanum 556
A5.45 G.Valla 557
A5.46 H.Columna 558
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Acknowledgements
IundertookthisprojectunderthedirectionofJimZetzel,accesstowhose
view of Roman literary history is possibly the single most intellectually
formative experience I have had. In Spring 2004, he taught a seminar on
Ennius, which was the greatest external impetus this project received and
whichprovokedmetoformtheviewsthatinformChapteri inparticular.
IshouldsayinhisdefencethatIhavenoreasontothinkthatheapproves
eitheroftheproposalsImakethereorofanyoftheotherhypothesesofthis
project.Iadmireandamgratefulforthestandardofscholarshiphesetfor
meattheoutsetofmystudies,andIdonotbelievethatthisprojectcould
havebeenconceivedwithoutthestimulusthathismodelprovided;butIam
not under the illusion that I shall ever be able to meet such a standard,
letalonethatIcomeanywhereneartoapproachingitinthisproject.
The dissertation in which this project originates barely scratched the
surfaceoftheissuescentraltotheprojectasitnowstands:thequestionof
howthesourcesforourfragmentshavedirectedtheirmoderninterpretation
andtherelatedissueofhowweunderstandthefunctionofgenreindefining
theenterprisethattheAnnalesconstituted.Fortheabilitytodevelopthose
themesIamendebtedtofellowshipsfromtheAmericanAcademyatRome
(2007–8) and from the Loeb Foundation (Fall 2008); to the National
Endowment for the Humanities, which partially funded the American
Academy fellowship; and to the Department of Classics and the College
ofArtsandSciences attheUniversityofColoradoatBoulderforallowing
me to accept these fellowships in sequence. A grant from the University’s
GraduateCouncilofArtsandHumanitiesfundedtraveltoandfromRome
in 2008, and a grant from the Dean’s Fund for Excellence allowed me to
return to Rome in Summer 2010 to complete the catalogue of sources.
Thesefellowshipsandgrantsgavemethetimeandtheresourcesradicallyto
overhaulan awkwardandintellectually inchoatedissertation.Iambesides
this grateful to the University of Colorado’s Eugene M. Kayden Research
Grant and to Columbia University’s Lodge Fund, which jointly bore the
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