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Shored Against Our Ruins*

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THE FRAGMENTS OF THE ROMAN HISTORIANS. VOLUME 1: INTRODUCTION; VOLUME 2: TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS; VOLUME 3: COMMENTARY. General Editor: T. J.Cornell. Editorial Committee: E. H.Bispham, T. J.Cornell, J. W.Rich, C. J.Smith. Contributors: E. H.Bispham, J.Briscoe, T. J.Cornell, A.Drummond†, B. M.Levick, S. J.Northwood, S. P.Oakley, M. P.Pobjoy, J. W.Rich, C. J.Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. l + 662, viii + 1159, viii + 829, illus. ISBN 9780199277056 (set). £300.00/US$375.00 (set).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

John Marincola
John Marincola*
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jmarinco@fsu.edu
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These are exciting times for the study of Roman literature. New editions of the fragmentary poets and prose writers either have appeared or are in preparation, while renewed interest in the nature and character of the early Roman audience, and in the development of Roman literature itself, has sought to explain the larger context in which these writings arose and were read. Monographs and commentaries on early writers and genres have appeared in profusion, with four volumes on Ennius' Annals alone published within two years, at least one of which has raised serious questions of what we can and cannot know of the structure, orientation and contents of a poem that was (uniquely) influential on both later poetry and history.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 106 , November 2016 , pp. 237 - 246
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 

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I am grateful to Jessica Clark, Christina Kraus, Catherine Steel and A. J. Woodman for reading earlier versions of this review and offering helpful corrections and criticisms. They must not be assumed to agree with the opinions expressed here.

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