Euhemerus

work by Ennius

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discussed in biography

  • In Quintus Ennius

    Euhemerus, based on the ideas of Euhemerus of Messene, argued that the Olympian gods were originally great men honoured after death in human memory. Some epigrams, on himself and Scipio Africanus, are the first Latin elegiac couplets.

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