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  • Chapter 7 - Ennius’ Annals as Source and Model for Historical Speech

  • from II - Authority
  • Edited by Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania, Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Ennius' <I>Annals</I>
    Published online:
    10 April 2020
    Print publication:
    09 April 2020, pp 147-166

  • Summary

    In this paper I use speeches taken over or adapted from speeches in Ennius’ Annals as a window onto the treatment of Ennius as a historical source and the attitudes of Roman prose writers to the representation and transmission of historical speech acts. I argue first that allusions to the content of speeches and the specific language of speakers in the Annals draw productively on Ennius’ cultural authority with or without the presumption of parallel episodes. Next, I consider the question of accuracy in relation to the citation of Ennius. Finally, I attempt to draw these two strands together through the Ennian speech in which Hannibal addresses his troops before one of the major battles of the second Punic War, as adapted by Cicero, Livy, and Silius Italicus, arguing that these allusions do not presume that the Ennian version offers a through line to what was really said, but rather incorporate the authoritative Ennian tradition in a self-conscious nod to the “culturally truest” account of the Roman past.