Noscendi Nilum Cupido (eBook)

Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus

Eleni Manolaraki (Autor)

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2013
390 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-029773-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 'barbarism'. Set against history and material culture, Julio-Claudian, Flavian, Antonine, and Severan authors reveal a multivalent Egypt that defines Rome's increasingly diffuse identity while remaining a tantalizing tertium quid between Roman Selfhood and foreign Otherness.

Eleni Manolaraki, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.

Autor

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Eleni Manolaraki, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2013
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Ägypten • Culture • Egypt • History • Orientalism • Rome
• ISBN-10: 3-11-029773-6 / 3110297736
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-029773-7 / 9783110297737