Isis in a Global Empire: Greek Identity Through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece

ISBN-13: 9781316517017 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Bloomington) Mazurek Lindsey A. (Indiana University

Opis

It introduces a religious dimension to the study of ethnic identity and globalization in the provinces of the Roman Empire.

Spis treści

1. Egyptian religion and the problem of Greekness; 2. Building groupness: Isis' devotees and their communities; 3. Deterritorializing theology? Bringing the Egyptian gods to Greece; 4. Self-understanding: Visualizing Isis in stone; 5. Self-fashioning: Dressing devotees of Isis in Athenian portraits; 6. Self-location: Isiac sanctuaries and Nilotic fictions; 7. Conclusion: Graecia Capta, Aegypta Capta.