The She-Wolf on the Nile
Gaio Cornelio Gallo between Rome and Egypt
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Emanuele Marcello Ciampini - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email orcid profile
- Francesca Rohr Vio - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email orcid profile
Abstract
The story of Gaius Cornelius Gallus matures against the backdrop of the profound transformation that characterised the 1st century BC. A leading intellectual, an expression of the newly integrated western elites, a successful politician and military man, first placed at the head of Egypt as prefect and finally the subject of a public prosecution that cost him his life, Gallus represents an effective key to understanding this historical passage, investigated, through an interdisciplinary approach, from the dual perspective of the res publica becoming a principality and Egypt becoming Roman territory.
Keywords Roman Egypt • Cornelius Gallus • Latin Poetry • Augustan Age • Roman Imperial Ideology
Thema codes NHDA • 1QBA • 3CTB
Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-002-0 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-002-0 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-015-0 | Published Feb. 20, 2015 | Language it
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