The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation

The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 371
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ISBN-10 : 9781108665650
ISBN-13 : 1108665659
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Book Synopsis The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation by : Jared Hudson

Download or read book The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation written by Jared Hudson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin literature is crowded with portraits of Romans in transit, but despite this ubiquity scholars have been reluctant to read vehicles as significant conveyors of textual and cultural meaning. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of Roman vehicles in Latin literary texts. By moving past approaches that count such vehicular portrayals as either transparent glimpses of reality or soaring poetic symbols, it demonstrates how these conveyances work as a system of representation to structure both the texts in which they appear and underlying cultural discourses surrounding power, gender, and empire. Arranged as a series of interlocking studies, each chapter explores the representation of a particular conveyance across author and text, from the humblest and most quotidian (plaustrum) to the most exalted and symbol-laden (currus).


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