Quintus Ennius

 Quintus Ennius


Called the father of Latin verse, he's famous for his"Annales," a narrative poem concerning the foundation of Rome.


Ennius was created in Rudiae in Calabria. He knew three languages had, '' he said,"three hearts": Oscan, his native tongueGreek, where he had been educated, maybe at Tarentum; and Latin, that he discovered as a centurion in the Roman military. While stationed in Sardinia during the Second Punic War, he fulfilled Cato the Elder, whom he educated Greek.


He supported himself first by teaching Greek, then turned into adapting Greek tragedies and a few comedies to the Roman phase, and he wrote poetry also. He was a pal of notable Romans of the time, notably Scipio Africanus and Marcus Fulvius Nobilior along with his son Quintus, who obtained for his Roman citizenship.


Ennius was a really versatile poet though, based on Ovid, he owned more genius than artwork. The stays of Ennius's functions are fragmentary. Of the Annales, the most essential component, some 600 lines or roughly one-fiftieth of this whole, stays. Some fragments are provided that 20 lines.


Naevius had composed a historic epic until Ennius, but the exceptional promise to greatness of the Annales is its own meter, that the hexameter. Henceforth, a lot of the best Latin poetry would utilize this meter. The poet's hexameters look primitive and awkward beside Virgil's, frequently being greatly spondaic, ignoring caesuras and elisions, and carrying alliteration and assonance into extremes. But they can occasionally rise into a rocky and highly effective dignity.


Of the 22 names of plays known to function as, 3 are out of extant tragedies of Euripides. Fragments of the tragedies amount about 400 lines.


As a writer of humor, Ennius was apparently less powerful, for just two names are understood. Lesser works comprise Satires (Latin satura, medley), a job at varying meters on various subjects, such as criticism of politics and morals, and also the first work of its type; Epigrams; Hedyphagetica, or The Art of Living; Epicharmus, a didactic poem on character; and Euhemerus, a rationalization of Greek mythology.


Ennius's participation to Roman civilization was twofold. To begin with, by adapting Greek tragedies he left Greek ideas present at Rome; and next, he had an immediate effect on subsequent authors.


Ennius was obviously a convivial character if Horace, who stated that he always wrote in his cups, and Jerome, who stated he died of gout, could be considered. He had been composing until his departure, along with his version of this drama Thyestes has been made that he died.


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