Noscendi Nilum cupido : imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus / / by Eleni Manolaraki.
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes,
v. 18 |
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| Physical Description: | x, 379 p. |
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Table of 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' Siluae
- 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.