Part I: Setting the Scene -- Introduction -- Imagining Egypt -- Methodology and Outline -- Theoretical Influences -- Chapter 1: Egypt and the Nile in Julio-Claudian Rome -- Part II: Lucan -- Chapter 2: Pompey's Nile -- Chapter 3: Beyond Pompey's Nile -- Chapter 4: The Nile Digression -- Acoreus, Author of the Nile -- Physics: The Nile between Earth and Sky -- Ethics: Lucan and Seneca on the Nile -- Poetics: The Bard's Song and the River of Poetry -- The Bard's Song -- The River of Poetry -- Conclusions -- Part III: Flavian Rome -- Chapter 5: Egypt and the Nile in Flavian Rome -- Chapter 6: Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica -- The Nile in Cyzicus -- The Nile in the Bosphorus -- The Nile in Aea -- The Nile on the Danube -- Chapter 7: Statius' Thebaid -- The Nile on Perseus' Hill -- The Nile on the Langia -- The Nile in Athens -- Chapter 8: Statius' Propempticon (Silu. 3.2) -- Producing Egypt, Staging Isis -- Remapping the Land: From Egypt to Rome and Back Again -- Relating to Religion: Anubis, Phoenix, and Apis -- Revisiting History: Alexander and Cleopatra -- Conclusions -- Part IV: The Antonine and Severan Periods -- Chapter 9: The Nile and Egypt in the Antonine and: Severan Periods -- The Emperor's Nile: The Younger Pliny and Fronto -- Chapter 10: Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris -- Chapter 11: Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana -- Sage and Emperor on the Nile -- Reclaiming the Nile -- Imagining the Nile -- Conclusions -- Afterword -- Texts and Translations Used -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Ancient Texts.