Tag Archives: Ennius

Casting the Die, Sounding the Charge

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Peter Kruschwitz

It was on January 10th, 49 B. C., allegedly, that Gaius Julius Caesar decided to cross the Rubicon – literally – and thus both to start a bloody civil war and to create a metaphor, for millennia to come, that describes … Continue reading →

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Ennius on War and (Dashed Hopes for) Peace

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

Quintus Ennius was one of ancient Rome’s greatest poets. He served as a soldier during the Second Punic War. In his epic poem Annales (‘Yearbooks’), which survives in fragments, Ennius, far from being a pacifist himself (even in the fragments … Continue reading →

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