Noscendi Nilum cupido : imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus /
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Language: English
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
[2013].
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Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ;
18.
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Call Number: PA6021 .M36 2013
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' 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.