Reading Rivers in Roman Literature And Culture
, by Jones, Prudence J.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780739111086 | 0739111086
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 9/7/2005
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.