The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation
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The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation

Vehicles in Latin Literature

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The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation

Vehicles in Latin Literature

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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).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781108640282
Topic
Storia
Subtopic
Storia antica

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Preamble: On the Way
  9. Introduction En Route
  10. Chapter 1 Making Use: Plaustrum
  11. Chapter 2 Power Steering: Currus
  12. Chapter 3 The Other Chariot: Essedum
  13. Chapter 4 Conveying Women: Carpentum
  14. Chapter 5 Portable Retreats: Lectica
  15. Envoi: The End of the Road
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index Locorum
  18. Subject Index