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Bellum Poenicum
poem by Naevius
Also known as: “Bellum Punicum”
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discussed in biography
- In Gnaeus Naevius
…Punic War (264–261) in his Bellum Poenicum, relying for facts upon his own experience in the war and on oral tradition at Rome. The scope of the tale and the forceful diction qualify it as an epic, showing a marked advance in originality beyond the Odusia of Livius and making…
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place in Latin literature
- In Latin literature: Epic and epyllion
…fragments, primitive, as was the Bellum Punicum of Naevius, important for Virgil because it began with the legendary origins of Carthage in Phoenicia and Rome in Troy. But Ennius’ Annales soon followed. This compound of legendary origins and history was in Latin, in a transplanted metre, and by a poet…
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