TY - BOOK AU - Manolaraki,Eleni ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Noscendi Nilum cupido: imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus AV - PA6021 .M36 2012 U1 - 870.9/35832 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Berlin PB - De Gruyter KW - Latin literature KW - History and criticism KW - Egypt KW - In literature KW - Electronic books N1 - 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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=946626 ER -