Eleni Manolaraki
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleni Manolaraki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleni |
| FAMILY NAME | Manolaraki |
| SIGNATURE | MANOLARAKI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The River of Fire in the Byzantine Romance Velthandros
The article examines the symbolism of water and fire in the Byzantine romance Velthandros, focusing on a supernatural “river of fire” (flogopotamon). This river serves as a literal and metaphorical conduit, transporting the protagonist, Velthandros, from historical reality into a mythical realm. This study argues that the fiery river alludes to ancient traditions of the search for the Nile’s source, a quest associated with intellectual and spirit…
Roman Geographies of the Nile: From the Late Republic to the Early Empire by Andy Merrills
Reviewed by: Roman Geographies of the Nile: From the Late Republic to the Early Empire by Andy Merrills Eleni Hall Manolaraki Andy Merrills. Roman Geographies of the Nile: From the Late Republic to the Early Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi, 338. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-107-17728-4. The jacket blurb bills Roman Geographies of the Nile as "a wholly original interpretation of the deeper significance of geographical knowledge…
Domesticating Egypt in Pliny’s Natural History
Senses and the Sacred in Pliny’s Natural History
This paper discusses an overlooked aspect of Pliny’s Natural History (HN): the embodiment through the senses of the Stoics’ universal deity. At several junctures in the work, readers are prompted to make contact with the immanent numen naturae by hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching its perishable manifestations. Pliny’s emphasis on the “lesser” senses as vehicles for a human-divine relation is worth examining as an innovative gesture in conn…
Lucan’s Egyptian Civil War by Jonathan Tracy (review)
Reviewed by: Lucan’s Egyptian Civil War by Jonathan Tracy Eleni Manolaraki Jonathan Tracy. Lucan’s Egyptian Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. viii, 296. $99.00. ISBN 978-1-107-07207-7. Based on the author’s 2009 dissertation, this book explores Lucan’s engagement with two disparate conceptualizations of Egypt: Egypt as bastion of traditional values and social stability, and Egypt as trademark of oriental decadence and po…
Aeriae Grues: Crane Migrations From Virgil to Statius
This essay scrutinizes the topos of crane migration in Roman martial epic to illustrate the ideological and meta-poetical development of this motif in its home genre. Each poet’s adaptation of his predecessors’ crane motifs alludes to the characters, themes, and ideological underpinnings of his own epic. The identification of cranes as carriers of meaning contributes to established links between Virgil Lucan, and Statius, reinforces the relativel…
Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus
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 increasin…
Noscendi Nilum Cupido: The Nile Digression in Book 10
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…
Silius’ Natural History: Tides in the Pvnica
Political and Rhetorical Seascapes in Pliny’s Panegyricus
Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus
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 increasin…
Political and Rhetorical Seascapes in Pliny’s Panegyricus
Political and Rhetorical Seascapes in Pliny’s Panegyricus
Silius’ Natural History: Tides in the Pvnica
Noscendi Nilum Cupido: The Nile Digression in Book 10
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…
Aeriae Grues: Crane Migrations From Virgil to Statius
This essay scrutinizes the topos of crane migration in Roman martial epic to illustrate the ideological and meta-poetical development of this motif in its home genre. Each poet’s adaptation of his predecessors’ crane motifs alludes to the characters, themes, and ideological underpinnings of his own epic. The identification of cranes as carriers of meaning contributes to established links between Virgil Lucan, and Statius, reinforces the relativel…
Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus
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 increasin…
Lucan’s Egyptian Civil War by Jonathan Tracy (review)
Reviewed by: Lucan’s Egyptian Civil War by Jonathan Tracy Eleni Manolaraki Jonathan Tracy. Lucan’s Egyptian Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. viii, 296. $99.00. ISBN 978-1-107-07207-7. Based on the author’s 2009 dissertation, this book explores Lucan’s engagement with two disparate conceptualizations of Egypt: Egypt as bastion of traditional values and social stability, and Egypt as trademark of oriental decadence and po…
Domesticating Egypt in Pliny’s Natural History
Senses and the Sacred in Pliny’s Natural History
This paper discusses an overlooked aspect of Pliny’s Natural History (HN): the embodiment through the senses of the Stoics’ universal deity. At several junctures in the work, readers are prompted to make contact with the immanent numen naturae by hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching its perishable manifestations. Pliny’s emphasis on the “lesser” senses as vehicles for a human-divine relation is worth examining as an innovative gesture in conn…
Roman Geographies of the Nile: From the Late Republic to the Early Empire by Andy Merrills
Reviewed by: Roman Geographies of the Nile: From the Late Republic to the Early Empire by Andy Merrills Eleni Hall Manolaraki Andy Merrills. Roman Geographies of the Nile: From the Late Republic to the Early Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi, 338. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-107-17728-4. The jacket blurb bills Roman Geographies of the Nile as "a wholly original interpretation of the deeper significance of geographical knowledge…
The River of Fire in the Byzantine Romance Velthandros
The article examines the symbolism of water and fire in the Byzantine romance Velthandros, focusing on a supernatural “river of fire” (flogopotamon). This river serves as a literal and metaphorical conduit, transporting the protagonist, Velthandros, from historical reality into a mythical realm. This study argues that the fiery river alludes to ancient traditions of the search for the Nile’s source, a quest associated with intellectual and spirit…
History (9 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works)