Noscendi Nilum cupido imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus / by Eleni Manolaraki.

Author/creator Manolaraki, Eleni
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerlin : De Gruyter, [2013]
Descriptionx, 379 pages ; 24 cm.
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SeriesTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; volume 18
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 18. ^A1129057
Contents Egypt and the Nile in Julio-Claudian Rome: Lucan -- Pompey's Nile -- Beyond Pompey's Nile -- Acoreus -- Acoreus, author of the Nile -- Physics: the Nile between earth and sky -- Ethics: Lucan and Seneca on the Nile -- Poetics: the bard's song and the river of poetry -- The bard's song -- The river of poetry -- Flavian Rome: Egypt and the Nile in Flavian Rome -- Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica -- The Nile in Cyzicus -- The Nile in the Bosphorus -- The Nile in Aea -- The Nile on the Danube -- Statius' Thebaid -- The Nile on Perseus' hill -- The Nile on the Langia -- The Nile in Athens -- Statius' Propempticon -- Producing Egypt, staging Isis -- Remapping the land: from Egypt to Rome and back again -- Relating to religion: Anubis, Phoenix, and Apis -- Revisiting history: Alexander and Cleopatra -- The Antonine and Severan periods: The Nile and Egypt in the Antonine and Severan periods -- The emperor's Nile: the younger Pliny and Fronto -- Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris -- Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana -- Sage and emperor on the Nile -- Reclaiming the Nile -- Imagining the Nile.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 315-349) and indexes.
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LCCN 2012037447
ISBN9783110297676 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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