Teachers, pupils and cosmological revelations: Tracing the Empedoclean influence in Latin Epic

在恩尼乌斯的《编年史》、维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯纪》和奥维德的《变形记》中，神话和历史叙事是史诗体裁的典型，它们与三位“教师”（荷马、埃涅阿斯和毕达哥拉斯）对各自学生（恩尼乌斯、埃涅阿斯和努马）的说教性话语相结合。先前的学术研究已经详细讨论了恩培多克林哲学对这些话语的影响，但这种哲学内容的传播方式将是我研究的重点。我的目的是确定在何种程度上的自然主义离题拉丁史诗已受到恩培多克勒诗歌的议论风格。

In Ennius' Annals, Vergil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses the mythological and historical narratives, typical of the epic genre, are joined to the didactic discourses on Nature given by three "teachers" (Homer, Anchises and Pythagoras) to their respective pupils (Ennius, Aeneas and Numa). Previous scholarship has discussed in detail the influence of Empedoclean philosophy on these discourses, but the way this philosophical content is communicated will be the focus of my research. My purpose is to determine the extent to which the naturalistic digressions of Latin Epic have been affected by the argumentative style of Empedocles' poetry.