Roman geographies of the Nile : from the late Republic to the early Empire / Andy Merrills (University of Leicester).
"The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, texts, poems and paintings of the developing empire. Tantalised by the unique status of the river, explorers were sent to find the sources of the Nile, while natural philosophers meditated on its deeper metaphysic...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk about Roman Geography
- A World Full of Maps? Public 'Chorographies' in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome
- The Dismembered Nile: The Geography of Triumphs and Monuments
- Gazing on the Nile: The Domestication of the River
- Creatio ex Nilo: Metaphysics and the Unknowable River
- This River Is a Jumbled Line, Perhaps?: Journeys and Lines
- Triumph and Disaster: Rendering the River in Verse
- Afterword: The Many Niles of the Elder Pliny.
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk about Roman Geography; Roman Geography Triumphant; Why the Nile?; The Structure of the Argument; 1 A World Full of Maps? Public `Chorographies' in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome; The 'Chorographies' of Vitruvius; The Praeneste Nile Mosaic; A World to Be Gazed upon and Talked About; Conclusions: Visual Geographies on a Grand Scale; 2 The Dismembered Nile: The Geography of Triumphs and Monuments; Triumphs.
- Geography in ProcessionMaking Sense of Triumphal Geographies; The Wisdom of Crowds; Making Maps from Metonyms; The World in the City; Conclusions: Fragments and Assemblages; 3 Gazing on the Nile: The Domestication of the River; The House of the Ephebe and the Praedia of Julia Felix; Pompeian Aegyptiaca; Egypt in Context: The House of the Ceii; Nile Landscapes and Roman Visual Culture in the Private Sphere; The Development of Roman Nilotica; Larger Prospects. Gardens and Villas; Text and Image; Conclusions: The Power of the Gaze; 4 Creatio ex Nilo: Metaphysics and the Unknowable River.
- Lucretius, the Nile and the Nature of KnowledgeSeneca and the Limits of Knowing; Seneca's Nile and the Cycles of Cosmic Time; Egyptian Cosmology and Roman Geography; Isis, Serapis and the Nile in Pompeii; Conclusions: Metaphysical Niles; 5 This River Is a Jumbled Line, Perhaps?: Journeys and Lines; Itineraries: A World Defined by Routes, Nodes and Lines; The Ethiopian Expedition: To Meroe and Beyond?; Itineraries in Roman Egypt; Strabo; Tacitus on the Ill-Fated Egyptian Journey of Germanicus; Satire and Parody; Conclusions: Thinking in Lines.
- 6 Triumph and Disaster: Rendering the River in VerseThe Politics of Geography in Epic and Elegy; Lucan; Conclusions: Poetic Geographies; Afterword: The Many Niles of the Elder Pliny; Nile Sources; Multiple Egypts; The World in Rome; Conclusions: Kaleidoscopic Geographies; Bibliography; Index.