TY - GEN AB - 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. AU - Nethercut, Jason S., CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PA6485 ID - 945955 KW - Epic poetry, Latin LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197517697.001.0001 N2 - 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. SN - 9780197517727 T1 - Ennius noster :Lucretius and the Annales / TI - Ennius noster :Lucretius and the Annales / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197517697.001.0001 ER -