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Энний. Анналы. Книга Первая (перевод и комментарий)
ENNIUS. ANNALES. BOOK I
A. PODOSSINOV, A. MANKOV
(TRANSLATION, COMMENTARY)
Quintus Ennius (239‒169 BC) was a Latin poet who introduced hexameter to Latin
poetry. His main work, Annales, an epic poem consisting of 18 books, is devoted to the
history of Rome. Its text is preserved in fragments, the size of the greater part of which
does not exceed one line. The total number of lines is 676 (in O. Skutsch’s edition).
This publication is a result of the work of a seminar on translating Latin writers under
guidance of Prof. A. Podossinov. In this seminar the entire preserved text of the Annals
has been translated into Russian in hexameter for the first time. Some fragments were
earlier translated by S. Osherov for the “Anthology of Early Roman Literature”; these
translations are included in our publication. Translations made by participants of the
seminar are marked with *. The translation is based on E.H. Warmington’s edition;
the Latin text is given according to this edition as well. In preparing the commentary
we also used the edition by O. Skutsch. The authors of translation and commentaries
are A. Denisov, E. Denshchikova, S. Fedotov, A. Ivlev, A. Mankov, Yu. Pekov,
A. Podossinov, O. Ryabenko, I. Smirnova, S. Tereshkov, A. Voskresensky. We are
grateful to E. Ilyushechkina for her help in preparing this publication.