Epic and Historiography at Rome
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23748221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Leigh (0000-0003-1406-1413, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 459-470 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405185110.ch50 |
| OpenAlex | W2754667418 |
| ISBN | 9781405185110 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
The Aeneid, it might be thought, is pretty demonstrably an epic poem. Not so to one Sulpicius Carthaginiensis whose verdict Donatus quotes in his Life of Vergil (38). For Sulpicius has heard the famous story that Augustus disregarded the poet's death-bed instructions that his poem be burned, and praises the emperor for the care he shows for Roman history (tu, maxime Caesar,/non sinis et Latiae consulis historiae). Vergil's successor Lucan seems to have suffered similar problems, and it is a commonplace in ancient criticism to suggest that aspects of his work make him a historian, not a poet. And if a poet could be taken for a historian, so a historian could be taken for a poet: Phylarchus is damned for his constant tragic effects (Pol. 2.56), but Herodotus praised as most Homeric in manner.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Criticism · Emperor · EPIC · Historiography · Literature · Poetry · Successor cardinal · Verdict · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy
Reading Ennius’ Annals and Cato’s Origins at Rome
Ennius’ Annals as Source and Model for Historical Speech
Looking for auctoritas in Ennius’ Annals
Allegory and Authority in Latin Verse-Historiography
Ennius and Lucilius
Ennius’ Annals and Tacitus’ Annals
Livy’s Ennius
A Subaltern’s View of Early Byzantine Africa
La Troiae Halosis
Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |