Roman geographies of the nile from the late republic to the early empire a h merrills the river nile fascinated the romans and appeared in maps written descriptions texts poems and paintings of the developing empire. Roman geographies of the nile from the late republic to the early empire andy merrills no preview available 2017. Ty jour t1 roman geographies of the nile t2 orbis terrarum au laurenceray py 2018 y1 2018 n2 review of roman geographies of the nile from the late republic to the early empire by andy merrills 2017. Roman geographies of the nile from the late republic to the early empire hardback texts poems and paintings of the developing empire tantalised by the unique status of the river explorers were sent to find the sources of the nile while natural philosophers meditated on its deeper metaphysical significance book provides a wholly . Roman geographies of the nile from the late republic to the early empire cambridge cambridge university press 2017 9781107177284 10 pages social and cultural resonances of geographical knowledge during the later roman republic and early principate it interrogates different modes of geograph ical representation that were known