Description: 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, ar...
Brief description: Prudence J. Jones received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She has taught at Bryn Mawr College and Rutgers University and currently is a professor of Classics and Humanities at Montclair State University.