Reading rivers in Roman literature and culture
By: Prudence J. Jones.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Virgil -- Knowledge -- Geography.; Latin literature -- History and criticism.; Rivers in literature.; Geography, Ancient, in literature.; Nature in literature.; Rivers -- Rome.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-118) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cosmology; title: Ritual; title: Ethnography; title: The river that talks : rivers and poetic speech; title: Round rivers : Okeanos and bounded narrative; title: Agmen aquarum : river catalogues; title: Up the creek : upstream voyages and narrative structure; title: Overflow : the reception of river motifs.