{"product_id":"ennius-noster-jason-s-nethercut-9780197517697","title":"Ennius Noster: Lucretius and the Annales","description":"Consensus holds that Lucretius admired the literary prestige of Homeric epos, the form that Ennius famously introduced to Latin literature. However, some hold that Lucretius disagreed with Ennius' quasi-Pythagorean claim to be Homer reborn, and so uniquely qualified to adapt Homeric poetry to the Latin language. Likewise, received wisdom holds that Lucretius followed in the path of poets writing in the wake of Ennius' \u003cem\u003eAnnales\u003c\/em\u003e, most of whom employed an Ennian style. However, throughout the \u003cem\u003eDe Rerum Natura\u003c\/em\u003e, Lucretius' use of Ennius' \u003cem\u003eAnnales\u003c\/em\u003e as a formal model for a long discursive poem in epic meter was neither inevitable nor predictable, on the one hand, nor meaningful in the simple way that critical consensus has always maintained. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJason Nethercut posits that Lucretius selected Ennius as a model precisely to dismantle the values for which he claimed Ennius stood, including the importance of history as a poetic subject and Rome's historical achievement in particular. As the first book to offer substantial analysis of the relationship between two of the ancient world's most impactful poets, \u003cem\u003eEnnius Noster: Lucretius and the \u003c\/em\u003eAnnales fills an important gap not only in Lucretian scholarship, but also in our understanding of Latin literary history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason S. Nethercut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197517692\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197517697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2022","brand":"Jason S. Nethercut","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43989118222591,"sku":"9780197517697","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2bf3164d-a533-4e7b-87d4-43a394be70ea.jpg?v=1683297742","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ennius-noster-jason-s-nethercut-9780197517697","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}