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Noscendi Nilum cupido : imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus /
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 "bar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2012.
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| Colección: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ;
v. 18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 tantalizing tertium quid between Roman Selfhood and foreign Otherness |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 379 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110297737 3110297736 3110297744 9783110297744 1299719236 9781299719231 |