{"id":55215,"date":"2019-10-02T21:10:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biographies-of-romans\/ennius\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T20:45:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:45:38","slug":"ennius","status":"publish","type":"biografie","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/ennius\/","title":{"rendered":"Ennius"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ennius was born in 239 BCE in Rudiae (Apulia) as Quintus Ennius<\/em>. He was a Roman poet, considered as the father of Roman poetry. Only fragments of his work have survived to our times.<\/p>\n

He came from Calabria. The city where he was born – Rudiae was an Oldo-Roman center founded by Messapia. Languages \u200b\u200bin this region were Oskise, Latin and Greek. Gellius, a writer from the second century CE, wrote that Ennius had “three hearts” (Quintus Ennius tria corda haba sese dicebat, quod loqui Graece et Osce et Latine sciret<\/em>).<\/p>\n

He fought in Sardinia<\/a> during the Second Punic War<\/a>, where he met the Cato the Elder<\/a> with whom he came to Rome<\/a>. He worked there as a teacher and poet. He received Roman citizenship<\/a> for his services in literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Till our times have survived 20 titles and tragedies of Ennius. His most important work was the historical epic called Annales<\/em>, written in 18 books, and containing a poetic vision of the history of Rome<\/a> since the arrival of Aeneas in Italy. It was the first major Latin work written with a date hexagon, which he introduced in the poem Ennius into Latin poetry. About 600 poems remain from Annales, including incipitus of the first book Musae quae pedibus magnum pulsatis Olympum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Until the creation of “Aeneis”, “Annales” were considered a national epic of the Romans. Peaks of popularity reached in the second century CE, the “silver” period of Roman literature<\/a>, when archaic patterns were used to rejuvenate the language. The loss of Annales<\/em> is probably due to the sudden and irreversible outflow of this fashion in the 3rd century CE.<\/p>\n

In addition, Ennius was involved in the adaptation of numerous Greek dramas and comedies, mostly from Euripides. He was the first to write Roman epigrams. He also wrote the work Saturae<\/em>, which contained a collection of various content and metric measures.
\nInterestingly, Ennius considered himself the incarnation of Homer<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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