Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture
Rare and modern books
Prudence J. Jones
Lexington Books,U.S. (28 Sep 2005),
Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture
Rare and modern books
Prudence J. Jones
Lexington Books,U.S. (28 Sep 2005),
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- Author
- Prudence J. Jones
- Publishers
- Lexington Books,U.S. (28 Sep 2005)
- Keyword
- Classica Ancient Rome Greece
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
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8vo, pp. 142, (Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Paperback) This study examines rivers as a literary phenomenon, particularly in the poetry of Vergil. It first considers the Greco-Roman understanding of the river in its primary symbolic roles, cosmological, ritual and ethnographical, and then analyzes the river as a literary device, arguing that descriptions of rivers in Roman poetry are, in many cases, a form of authorial comment on the progress or structure of a narrative.
