Shaggy crowns : Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid

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by  Goldschmidt

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Shaggy Crowns
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Ennius Annales and Virgil s Aeneid
NORA GOLDSCHMIDT
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Acknowledgements
ThisbookbeganasaDPhilthesiswrittenatMagdalenCollege,Oxford,
with the generous support of the Arts and Humanities Research
Council,andIoweadebtofthankstobothinstitutions.PhilipHardie,
whosupervisedthethesisfrombeginningtoendandreadadraftofthe
book, was the best supervisor and reader I could hope for. Stephen
Harrisonverykindlyactedasco-supervisoratalaterstageofmywork
andwasalwaysreadywithvaluablesuggestions,comments,andqueries.
A number of others read and improved the work: my examiners,
Matthew Leigh and Damien Nelis; my monograph adviser, Emily
Gowers; my colleague and friend, Fiachra Mac Góráin, and the an-
onymousreadersforthePress.Iamverygrateful,too,totheOxford
Classical Monographs committee for encouraging me to publish the
workintheseries.
Revisions were largely made while I was working as a lecturer in
theSchoolofClassicsattheUniversityofStAndrewsandcompleted
while I was a research fellow funded by the European Research
Council in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at
Durham University; I am very thankful to my colleagues at both
institutions for providing such a welcoming, supportive, and stimu-
lating environment. Finally, for inspiration, encouragement, and
supportatvariouscrucialstagesinmycareer,IwishtothankHerwig
Maehler, Jamie Masters, Cornelia Römer, Alessandro Schiesaro,
ReiniervanStraten—andmyfragmentarybutwonderfulfamily.

Contents
Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
I. Fragments 1
II. EnniusundVergilius 5
III. ShaggyCrowns 7
IV. IntertextualityandCulturalMemory 9
1. ReadingEnniusintheFirstCenturybc 17
I. Introduction 17
II. ReadingEnnius(I):TheRepublic 18
III. ReadingEnnius(II):AugustanRome 28
IV. Conclusion 35
2. ‘Archaic’Poets 37
I. Introduction 37
II. EnniusandhisPrecursors 40
III. Vates,Fauni,andtheNew‘Archaic’Poet 50
IV. ArchaicLanguages 61
V. Conclusion 66
3. SitesofRome 69
I. Introduction 69
II. PlaceandtheAnnales 72
III. VirgilianArchaeologies:EnniusandtheTiber 78
IV. ‘RomaprimadiRoma’ 90
V. Conclusion 100
4. ‘Punica’ 101
I. Introduction 101
II. ‘Punica’inEnniusandNaevius 105
III. Sicily 109
i. Periegesis 110
ii. WarGames 115
IV. WarinItaly 127
i. Beginnings:Aeneid7andAnnales7 131
ii. Middles:Hannibaladportas 139
iii. Ends:Aeneas,Turnus,andZama 144
V. Conclusion 148
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5. EpicExamples 149
I. Introduction 149
II. EnniusandExemplaryEpic 154
III. SummariesandRepetitions 166
IV. TurnusandtheEnnianExample 179
i. FightingforRome:HoratiusCocles
andhisEmulators 180
ii. TheDeathofTurnus:EnnianExamples
andDecianParadigms 187
V. Conclusion 192
Postscript 193
Appendix 197
Bibliography 219
IndexLocorum 245
Index 253
Abbreviations
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in this monograph follow Skutsch’s edition (The Annals of Q. Ennius
(Oxford, 1985)), while the text of Virgil follows the Oxford Classical Text
(R.A.B.Mynors(Oxford,1969)).Standardeditionsofotherancientauthors
areusedandabbreviatedaccordingtoTheOxfordClassicalDictionary(3rd
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(Cambridge,1967)
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