The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation

Vehicles in Latin Literature

The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation
Jared Hudson
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7 Jan 2021 UK
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9781108481762
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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).
Jared Hudson is an Associate Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, Massachusetts.
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ISBN-13: 9781108481762
Published: 7 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 664g
Pages: 348

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