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RETRACTATIO ENNIANA BY ' J. H. WASZINK In a paper published twelve years ago in this periodical 1) I put forward the hypothesis that in the proem of the first book of the Annales Ennius described a journey to the realm of the Muses, during which he met these goddesses on Helicon and drank from Hippocrene, and afterwards visited Parnassus where, after falling asleep, he saw in a dream the of Homer which revealed to him that he was the second Homer in the literal sense of the word. I concluded (p. 23g ) "that it is highly probable that Ennius imitated the Aitia, though I by no means contest the possibility that he perused the Theogonia as well." Whereas my statement that Ennius declared to have dreamed w h e n he was on Parnassus, not t h a t he was there, has generally met with approval 2), the assumption, besides the scene on Parnassus explicitly mentioned by Persius 3), of a second scene on Helicon, the existence of which had already been denied many times, for instance by W. R. Hardie 4) and in a very thorough paper on the subject by Erich Reitzenstein 5),
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1962
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