Annales (Ennius)
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Annales is the name of a fragmentary Latin epic poem written by the Roman poet Ennius in the 2nd century BC. While only snippets of the work survive today, the poem's influence on Latin literature was
The Annales was written by the Roman poet Ennius (likely pictured, Roman bust in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek) in the 2nd century BC.
Fragments of the Annales have been found in the Villa of the Papyri (pictured) in the ruins of Herculaneum (2000).
Despite describing Ennius as "outstanding ... in talent", the Latin poet Ovid (pictured) wrote that "nothing is rougher than" his Annales.
Homer British Museum
Loeb Classical Library
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The Loeb Classical Library is a monographic series of books originally published by Heinemann and since 1934 by Harvard University Press. It has bilingual editions of ancient Greek and Latin literatur
Greek (green) and Latin (red) volumes of the Loeb Classical Library in Hatchard's bookshop London
Volume 170N of the Greek collection, revised edition
Volume 6 of the Latin collection, second edition 1988