Ninnius Crassus

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Ninnius Crassus was a Roman writer who translated the Greek Iliad into Latin hexameters. [1] Nothing about his life is known. [2] He may have lived in the early 1st century BC. [3] Only one and a half lines of Ninnius' translation are extant. [4] They are:

According to Reinhold Glei, commenting on the quality of the poetry, "the loss of the poem is perhaps not a very painful one". [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Sander M. Goldberg, Epic in Republican Rome (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 135.
  2. 1 2 3 Edward Courtney (ed.), The Fragmentary Latin Poets (Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 107.
  3. ↑ The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2012), s.v. "Ninnius Crassus".
  4. 1 2 Reinhold F. Glei, "The Ilias Latina as a Roman Continuation of the Iliad", in Robert C. Simms (ed.), Brill's Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic (Brill, 2018), p. 31.
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