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Hardcover Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture Book

ISBN: 0739111086

ISBN13: 9780739111086

Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture

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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.

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