Roman Geographies of the Nile: From the Late Republic to the Early Empire

ISBN-13: 9781316628287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 354 str.

Andy Merrills

Opis

This book examines the Romans' many representations of the Nile, and what they tell us about geographical understanding in the ancient world.

Recenzje

'… Merrills has performed an enormous scholarly service in reconstructing the diversity of the Roman geographical imagination in this stimulating and scholarly volume.' Robert Mayhew, Isis

Spis treści

Introduction: what we talk about when we talk about Roman geography; 1. A world full of maps? Public 'chorographies' in late Republican and early Imperial Rome; 2. The dismembered Nile: the geography of triumphs and monuments; 3. Gazing on the Nile: the domestication of the river; 4. Creatio ex Nilo: metaphysics and the unknowable river; 5. This river is a jumbled line, perhaps? (4): journeys and lines; 6. Triumph and disaster: rendering the river in verse; Afterword: the many Niles of the Elder Pliny.