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Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012

1 online resource (x, 379 p.)

ISBN 9783110297737 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9783110297676 (hardcover alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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’ 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.

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