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Roman Geographies of the Nile
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Artikel-Nr:
9781316628287
Veröffentl:
2021
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.08.2021
Seiten:
356
Autor:
Andy Merrills
Gewicht:
516 g
Format:
229x152x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Andy Merrills is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of two books: History and Geography in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2005), and The Vandals (with Richard Miles, 2010). He has held research fellowships at the University of Cambridge, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Sydney.
This book examines the Romans' many representations of the Nile, and what they tell us about geographical understanding in the ancient world.
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.