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Ennius opened his epic with a recollection of a dream in which the ancient epic-writer Homer informed him that his spirit had been reborn into Ennius

known about the origins of Ennius, however he may have been originally from the Roman province of Creta et Cyrenaica. Ennius was a member of the gens Ennia

Romans whom the poet admired—that Ennius penned the sixteenth book. According to Suerbaum and Eck, it is likely that Ennius drew mostly on Greek records when

acclaimed in his lifetime as a classic author, Virgil rapidly replaced Ennius and other earlier authors as a standard school text, and stood as the most

national character of his literary work. Had he been a semi-Graecus, like Ennius and Pacuvius, or of humble origin, like Plautus, Terence or Accius, he would

pupil of Ennius, by whom Roman tragedy was first raised to a position of influence and dignity. In the interval between the death of Ennius (169 BC) and

apparently in the Porticus Deorum Consentium. The gods were listed by the poet Ennius in the late 3rd century BCE in a paraphrase of an unknown Greek poet: Juno

(2019). Romulus in der lateinischen Literatur von Ennius bis Ovid [Romulus in Latin literature from Ennius to Ovid]. Darmstadt: wbg Academic. ISBN 978-3-534-40042-3

(link) Ennius ap. Prisc. p. 842 P. (Ann. v. 452 Vahl.) Ennius, Annales 1.31. Ennius, Varia 14V. Ennius Annales 370. Ennius, Annales 194–5. Ennius, Varia

remarkable production in the domain of narrative epic poetry between the time of Ennius and that of Vergil". Of Varro's fragments, the epigram on "The Tombs of