Book contents
- The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation
- The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preamble
- Introduction En Route
- Chapter 1 Making Use: Plaustrum
- Chapter 2 Power Steering: Currus
- Chapter 3 The Other Chariot: Essedum
- Chapter 4 Conveying Women: Carpentum
- Chapter 5 Portable Retreats: Lectica
- Envoi
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
Envoi
The End of the Road
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2021
- The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation
- The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preamble
- Introduction En Route
- Chapter 1 Making Use: Plaustrum
- Chapter 2 Power Steering: Currus
- Chapter 3 The Other Chariot: Essedum
- Chapter 4 Conveying Women: Carpentum
- Chapter 5 Portable Retreats: Lectica
- Envoi
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
Summary
A parting discussion takes up the figure of the first-person narrator-in-transit of Apuleius' Metamorphoses and suggests that such a narrative persona has a deep affiliation with the moralizing stance of the rhetoric of Roman transportation.
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- The Rhetoric of Roman TransportationVehicles in Latin Literature, pp. 312 - 315Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021