Ennius, Quintus
- Textgroups:
- phi0043
- CITE id:
- urn:cite:perseus:author.553
- Phi id:
- phi0043
- Stoa id:
- stoa0114
- Alt id:
- LCCN n 79109712
- Name:
- Ennius, Quintus
- Abbr:
- EN
Enn.
- Alt names:
- Ennio, Quinto
EN
Enn.
- Field of activity:
- Historian
Annalist
Comic Poet
Tragic Poet
- Notes:
- Duckett, E. S. Studies in Ennius, 1915
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 2,
1867, p. 17-19: "Ennius, whom the Romans ever regarded with a sort of filial reverence as the parent of their
literature--was born in the consulship of C. Mamilius Turrinus and C. Valerius Falto, B.C. 239...The
works of Ennius are believed to have existed entire so late as the thirteenth century..but they
have long since disappeared as an independent whole..."
Brill's New Pauly: "Latin writer of the pre-classical period. E.
(239-169 BC) is the most important and versatile Latin writer (Fronto p. 134,1 H.2) of the
pre-classical period. Although ‘a foreigner in Rome’ [21] (sociologically a dependent poet,
poeta cliens [33]) and representative of Hellenistic education, he contributed to shaping
the Roman national consciousness through sentences such as moribus antiquis res stat Romana
virisque..."
- Author info:
- Wikipedia
- Smith's Dictionary
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