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Noscendi Nilum Cupido Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus

:	Eleni Manolaraki
:	Noscendi Nilum Cupido Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus
:	Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
:	9783110297737
:	Trends in Classics - Supplementary VolumesISSN
:	1
:	CHF 159.70
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:	Altertum
:	English

:	390
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	Part I: Setting the Scene	11
	Introduction	13
	Imagining Egypt	13
	Methodology and Outline	21
	Theoretical Influences	34
	Chapter 1: Egypt and the Nile in Julio—Claudian Rome	39
	Part II: Lucan	53
	Chapter 2: Pompey’s Nile	55
	Chapter 3: Beyond Pompey’s Nile	69
	Chapter 4: The Nile Digression	90
	Acoreus, Author of the Nile	93
	Physics: The Nile between Earth and Sky	96
	Ethics: Lucan and Seneca on the Nile	106
	Poetics: The Bard’s Song and the River of Poetry	113
	The Bard’s Song	115
	The River of Poetry	121
	Conclusions	125
	Part III: Flavian Rome	129
	Chapter 5: Egypt and the Nile in Flavian Rome	131
	Chapter 6: Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica	143
	The Nile in Cyzicus	148
	The Nile in the Bosphorus	152
	The Nile in Aea	157
	The Nile on the Danube	166
	Chapter 7: Statius’ Thebaid	174
	The Nile on Perseus’ Hill	177
	The Nile on the Langia	180
	The Nile in Athens	188
	Chapter 8: Statius’ Propempticon (Silu. 3.2)	194
	Producing Egypt, Staging Isis	196
	Remapping the Land: From Egypt to Rome and Back Again	199
	Relating to Religion: Anubis, Phoenix, and Apis	208
	Revisiting History: Alexander and Cleopatra	216
	Conclusions	226
	Part IV: The Antonine and Severan Periods	231
	Chapter 9: The Nile and Egypt in the Antonine and: Severan Periods	233
	The Emperor’s Nile: The Younger Pliny and Fronto	244
	Chapter 10: Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris	262
	Chapter 11: Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana	268
	Sage and Emperor on the Nile	272
	Reclaiming the Nile	283
	Imagining the Nile	293
	Conclusions	317
	Afterword	319
	Texts and Translations Used	323
	Bibliography	325
	General Index	361
	Index of Ancient Texts	371