2013/12/12 by Nora Goldschmidt · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Byzantine Studies and History #Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies #Medieval Literature and History #Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
paper · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199681297.001.0001
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Goldschmidt looks at the relationship between Rome's two great epic poems, Ennius' 'Annales' and Virgil's 'Aeneid'. Focusing on the intersections between intertextuality and the appropriations of cultural memory, Goldschmidt considers how Virgil's poem appropriates and re-writes the myths and memories which Ennius had enshrined in Roman epic