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Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture (Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)
Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture - Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Author: Prudence J. Jones
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, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780739112403
ISBN-10: 0739112406
Publication Date: 9/28/2005
Pages: 142
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Publisher: Lexington Books
Book Type: Paperback
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