The Mighty Streams: Coping with Rivers in the Ancient World

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  • Krešimir Vuković Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Abstract

In ancient Greece of the archaic and classical period (circa 800–320 BC), rivers appear as powerful divinities and more-than-human agents, often in the form of myths that pit them against human heroes. The stories reflect both the power of rivers and the human desire to master the natural environment.

Author Biography

Krešimir Vuković, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Krešimir Vuković completed his doctorate in classics at the University of Oxford with a thesis on the Roman foundation myth and the festival of the Lupercalia (2015). He was then a lecturer in the Faculty of Classics at Oxford (2015–17) and started a postdoctoral research project on the Tiber River as Rome Fellow of the British School at Rome (2017–18). He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at LMU Munich.

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Published

2023-03-08

Issue

2022

Section

Autumn

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