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" Noscendi Nilum cupido : "
by Eleni Manolaraki
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BL
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649666
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| Main Entry
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Manolaraki, Eleni
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Noscendi Nilum cupido : : imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus /\ by Eleni Manolaraki
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| Series Statement
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Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; volume 18
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x, 379 pages ;; 24 cm
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9783110297676 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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: 3110297671 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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9783110297737 (eISBN)
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3110297736 (eISBN)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-349) and indexes
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| Contents
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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
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Latin literature-- History and criticism
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Egypt, In literature
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870.9/35832
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PA6021.M36 2013
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