Egypt Ethiopia and the Greek Novel Between Representation and Resistance 1st Edition by Robert Cioffi 9780192870537 019287053X
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ISBN 10: 019287053X
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Author: Robert Cioffi
There is no region more central to the ancient Greek romance novel than the thousand or so miles stretching from Alexandria to ancient Ethiopia that comprise the Nile River Valley. Yet, for all its importance, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel: Between Representation and Resistance is the first book-length study of how this region is depicted in a literary genre whose fictional tales of love, travel, separation, and reunion flourished during the Roman imperial period. Employing approaches from Literary Studies, Classics, and Egyptology, Robert Cioffi explores the Nile River Valley in the ancient Greek romance novel through two fundamentally related concepts: representation and resistance. On the one hand, these novels develop an image of Egypt and Ethiopia that is in close dialogue with the Greco-Roman ethnographic tradition, characterized by extraordinary marvels such as grand cities, ancient religious rites, and a dizzying array of animals—some real, some imaginary, and some so incredible as to seem make-believe. On the other hand, this depiction often figures Egypt and Ethiopia as sites of resistance, revolt, and rebellion against—or political, cultural, and religious alternatives to—an array of dominant imperial powers in the region, from the Persians to the Romans. This dual reading enriches our understanding of these texts’ relationship with the real and imagined frontiers of Roman political, military, and intellectual power. It also raises a broader set of questions—some literary, some cultural-historical—about the interrelation of humans, their environment, and the topographies of cultural identity in the Roman empire
Egypt Ethiopia and the Greek Novel Between Representation and Resistance 1st Table of contents:
1. Religion, Revolt, and Rome in Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, and Apuleius
Chariton and Egypt: Chabrias, Alexander, and Chaereas against Persia
An Ephesian Tale in Egypt
Isis Saves: Greek Novels, Egyptian Religion
Apuleius’ The Golden Ass and Isis
Conclusion
2. Where the Wild Things Are: Achilles Tatius and Egyptian Animals
Collecting Animals: A Very Short History of Environment, Ethnography, and Empire
The Egyptian Menagerie of Leucippe and Clitophon
Capturing the Hippopotamus: The Ethnographic Gaze and the Dynamics of Description
Writing the Unmentionable: Ekphrasis, Identity, and the Phoenix in Achilles Tatius
Conclusion: The Phoenix and Achilles Tatius’ Egyptian Landscape
3. The Lives of Others: The Boukoloi, the Nile Delta, and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Achilles Tatius
First Encounters: Rebels in the Nile Delta
Alternative Histories: Boukoloi, Tragedy, and Mime
Landscapes of Papyrus: The Resistance of the Boukoloi
The Boukoloi and Their Egyptian Contexts
Greek Novels and Egyptian Fictions
Conclusion
4. Alexandria and Apocalypse: Representation, Resistance, and Time
Achilles Tatius: The City and the Crocodile
The “Acts” of Habrocomes
Apocalypse Then: Heliodorus, the Beach, and the Alexander Romance
Conclusion
5. An Ethiopian Story in Egypt
Bandits of Isis: Rewriting the Boukoloi
A Long, Twisting Road: The Labyrinth of the Boukoloi
Isis and Heliodorus’ Egypt
Calasiris and the New Ethnography: Chemmis and Delphi
“It is only among the Egyptians…”: Ritual and Spectatorship up the Nile
From Memphis to Syene: Ethnography on the Edge of the Earth
Conclusion
6. The Ends of Ethiopia in Heliodorus’ An Ethiopian Story
Beyond Egypt, beyond Persia, beyond Rome: Moving to Meroë
Ritual Crisis on the Edges of the Earth
Charicleia’s Homecoming: Performance, Mimēsis, and Succession in Ethiopia
Theagenes, the Giraffe, and the Meroitic Empire
Theagenes and the World of Sport: Athletics, Culture, and Dénouement
Closure and Transformation
Conclusion: The Future of Meroë
Epilogue: Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Americas—The Greek Novels’ Early Modern Readers
Bibliography
Index locorum
Index
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