Eleni Hall Manolaraki
University of South Florida, World Languages, Faculty Member
- Eleni Hall Manolaraki (Ph.D. Cornell University) is the author of "Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan ... moreEleni Hall Manolaraki (Ph.D. Cornell University) is the author of "Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus" (Degruyter 2012). She has published journal articles and book chapters on Roman epic (Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus), historiography (Tacitus, Pliny the Younger), and natural history (Pliny the Elder). She is co-author and editor of the Wiley textbook "A History of Rome" (4th edition), by Marcel Leglay et al.edit
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Research Interests: Egypt, Lucan, Vergil, Bird Migration, Roman Epic, and 4 moreCranes, Auspices, Epic similes, and Bird Omen
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This article proposes a reading of the balsam in the Natural History (12.111–23) through the socio-historical construct of Botanical Imperialism: the physical and cognitive appropriations of flora to establish cultural primacy. Pliny's... more
This article proposes a reading of the balsam in the Natural History (12.111–23) through the socio-historical construct of Botanical Imperialism: the physical and cognitive appropriations of flora to establish cultural primacy. Pliny's construction of the balsam engages with Flavian preoccupations such as Rome's economic recovery after the civil war, the integration of Judaea into the empire, Titus' self-presentation as conqueror, and the influence of eastern luxury. Discerning the ideological dimensions of the balsam contributes towards scholarship on the literary qualities of the Natural History, and sets Pliny's botany in the context of comparative work on imperialism and the natural sciences.
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At Cleopatra's banquet in Lucan's book 10 Caesar asks the Egyptian Acoreus to reveal the source of the Nile but receives a lengthy, evasive reply on the planetary influences on the Nile, on theories of its flood, and on its course through... more
At Cleopatra's banquet in Lucan's book 10 Caesar asks the Egyptian Acoreus to reveal the source of the Nile but receives a lengthy, evasive reply on the planetary influences on the Nile, on theories of its flood, and on its course through eastern Africa. This essay establishes the thematic coherence of this Nilescape within the scientific and ethical economy of the epic. First, Acoreus' Nilescape responds to earlier, hostile references to the Nile and contrasts a cosmological view of the river to those terrestrial perspectives. Second, Lucan's juxtaposition of these two views draws from st century ce stoicism, particularly Seneca's cosmology in the Natural Questions.
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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... more
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 tertium quid between Roman Selfhood and foreign Otherness.
Vespasian's Alexandrian uprising, his recognition of Egypt as his power basis, and his patronage of Isis re-conceptualize Egypt past the ideology of Augustan conquest. The imperialistic exhilaration and moral angst attending Rome's Flavian cosmopolitanism find an expressive means in the geographically and semantically nebulous Nile. The rapprochement with Egypt continues in the second and early third centuries. The "Hellenic" Antonines and the African-Syrian Severans expand perceptions of geography and identity within an increasingly decentralized and diverse empire. In the political and cultural discourses of this period, the capacious symbolics of Egypt validate the empire's religious and ethnic pluralism.
Vespasian's Alexandrian uprising, his recognition of Egypt as his power basis, and his patronage of Isis re-conceptualize Egypt past the ideology of Augustan conquest. The imperialistic exhilaration and moral angst attending Rome's Flavian cosmopolitanism find an expressive means in the geographically and semantically nebulous Nile. The rapprochement with Egypt continues in the second and early third centuries. The "Hellenic" Antonines and the African-Syrian Severans expand perceptions of geography and identity within an increasingly decentralized and diverse empire. In the political and cultural discourses of this period, the capacious symbolics of Egypt validate the empire's religious and ethnic pluralism.
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DESCRIPTION Spanning 1,300 years, this popular history of Rome has been thoroughly revised and updated, reinforcing its stature as an indispensable resource on the history and enduring influence of one of the world's greatest empires.... more
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Spanning 1,300 years, this popular history of Rome has been thoroughly revised and updated, reinforcing its stature as an indispensable resource on the history and enduring influence of one of the world's greatest empires.
New format: two-color text throughout; new pedagogical features, such as glossary terms in margins; chronological tables and genealogies are made clearer for student use
Includes revised text throughout, updated guides to further reading, and new sources for Roman history
Expands coverage of the late Republic period
Retains its emphasis on the importance of multi-disciplinary interpretations of literary sources and new archaeological evidence
Spanning 1,300 years, this popular history of Rome has been thoroughly revised and updated, reinforcing its stature as an indispensable resource on the history and enduring influence of one of the world's greatest empires.
New format: two-color text throughout; new pedagogical features, such as glossary terms in margins; chronological tables and genealogies are made clearer for student use
Includes revised text throughout, updated guides to further reading, and new sources for Roman history
Expands coverage of the late Republic period
Retains its emphasis on the importance of multi-disciplinary interpretations of literary sources and new archaeological evidence