Noscendi Nilum Cupido : Imagining Egypt From Lucan to Philostratus
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| Title: | Noscendi Nilum Cupido : Imagining Egypt From Lucan to Philostratus |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Eleni Manolaraki |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Latin literature--History and criticism |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical |
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