Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780739112403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 142 str.

Prudence J. Jones

Opis

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.