Manolaraki Noscendi Nilum Cupido

Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-029773-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 18, 390 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Classics - Supplementary VolumesISSN

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 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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries; everyone interested in ancient Egypt and the river Nile

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manolaraki, Eleni

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religion des alten Ägyptens
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Hellenismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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