Andy Merrills (University of Leicester)

Roman Geographies of the Nile

From the Late Republic to the Early Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, philosophical texts, poems and landscape paintings. This book examines these representations and their interdependence. It thereby proposes a new approach to the study of ancient geography, providing an accessible introduction to the field for a variety of audiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9781107177284
• ISBN-10: 1107177286
• Artikelnr.: 47508436

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.