Footnote:
Also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 5, 2020)
Description:
Contrary to critical consensus, Jason S. Nethercut argues that throughout the De Rerum Natura, Lucretius' use of Ennius' Annales as a formal model for a long discursive poem in epic meter was neither inevitable nor predictable, and was in fact used to dismantle the values for which Ennius stood.