LEADER 04556nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910809210203321 005 20240516183802.0 010 $a3-11-029774-4 010 $a3-11-029773-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110297737 035 $a(CKB)2550000001096640 035 $a(EBL)946626 035 $a(OCoLC)828078282 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000827518 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12366036 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000827518 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10830271 035 $a(PQKB)10407387 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC946626 035 $a(DE-B1597)178874 035 $a(OCoLC)853251755 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110297737 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL946626 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10649269 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL503174 035 $a(PPN)272836443 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001096640 100 $a20120913d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNoscendi Nilum cupido $eimagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus /$fby Eleni Manolaraki 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerlin $cDe Gruyter$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (392 p.) 225 0 $aTrends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ;$v18 225 0$aTrends in classics.$pSupplementary volumes,$x1868-4785 ;$vv. 18 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-029767-1 311 $a1-299-71923-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aEgypt 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. 330 $aWhat significations did Egypt have for the Romans a century after Actium and afterwards? How did Greek imperial authors respond to the Roman fascination with the Nile? This book explores Egypt's aftermath beyond the hostility of Augustan rhetoric, and Greek and Roman topoi of Egyptian "barbarism." Set against history and material culture, Julio-Claudian, Flavian, Antonine, and Severan authors reveal a multivalent Egypt that defines Rome's increasingly diffuse identity while remaining a tertium quid between Roman Selfhood and foreign Otherness. Vespasian's Alexandrian uprising, his recognition of Egypt as his power basis, and his patronage of Isis re-conceptualize Egypt past the ideology of Augustan conquest. The imperialistic exhilaration and moral angst attending Rome's Flavian cosmopolitanism find an expressive means in the geographically and semantically nebulous Nile. The rapprochement with Egypt continues in the second and early third centuries. The "Hellenic" Antonines and the African-Syrian Severans expand perceptions of geography and identity within an increasingly decentralized and diverse empire. In the political and cultural discourses of this period, the capacious symbolics of Egypt validate the empire's religious and ethnic pluralism. 410 0$aTrends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 606 $aLatin literature$xHistory and criticism 607 $aEgypt$xIn literature 610 $aCulture. 610 $aEgypt. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aOrientalism. 610 $aRome. 615 0$aLatin literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a870.9/35832 676 $a870.935832 686 $aFB 5875$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aManolaraki$b Eleni$01714613 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809210203321 996 $aNoscendi Nilum cupido$94108584 997 $aUNINA