02451nam a2200349 a 4500 ebr10649269 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 120913s2012 gw sb 001 0 eng d 2012037447 9783110297676 (hardcover alk. paper) 9783110297737 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)828078282 f-ua--- PA6021 .M36 2012eb 870.9/35832 23 Manolaraki, Eleni. Noscendi Nilum cupido [electronic resource] : imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus / by Eleni Manolaraki. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012. x, 379 p. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; v. 18 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Latin literature History and criticism. Egypt In literature. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10649269 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 154545 154545