Noscendi Nilum Cupido : : Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus /

Noscendi Nilum Cupido : : Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus / / Eleni Manolaraki.

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What significations did Egypt have for the Romans a century after Actium and afterwards? How did Greek imperial authors respond to the Roman fascination with the Nile? This book explores Egypt's aftermath beyond the hostility of Augustan rhetoric, and Greek and Roman topoi of Egyptian "bar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Manolaraki, Eleni,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2013
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (380 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Part I: Setting the Scene
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Egypt and the Nile in Julio–Claudian Rome
  • Part II: Lucan
  • Chapter 2: Pompey’s Nile
  • Chapter 3: Beyond Pompey’s Nile
  • Chapter 4: The Nile Digression
  • Part III: Flavian Rome
  • Chapter 5: Egypt and the Nile in Flavian Rome
  • Chapter 6: Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica
  • Chapter 7: Statius’ Thebaid
  • Chapter 8: Statius’ Propempticon (Silu. 3.2)
  • Part IV: The Antonine and Severan Periods
  • Chapter 9: The Nile and Egypt in the Antonine and Severan Periods
  • Chapter 10: Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris
  • Chapter 11: Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana
  • Afterword
  • Texts and Translations Used
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Index of Ancient Texts

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