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

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This book offers academic readers a glimpse into the ways that religion, ethnicity, and globalization intersected in Rome's provinces. By focusing on the worship of Egyptian gods in Greece, it explores how process of appropriation and experiences of geographic space and historical time defined a religious minority in Roman-ruled Greece.

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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.

About the author

Lindsey Mazurek is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington and co-editor of Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean. Her scholarship has been supported by the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the German Archaeological Institute, the Hardt Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Summary

This book offers academic readers a glimpse into the ways that religion, ethnicity, and globalization intersected in Rome's provinces. By focusing on the worship of Egyptian gods in Greece, it explores how process of appropriation and experiences of geographic space and historical time defined a religious minority in Roman-ruled Greece.

Product details

Authors Lindsey A. Mazurek, Lindsey A. (Indiana University Mazurek
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 14.11.2024
 
EAN 9781009016902
ISBN 978-1-0-0901690-2
No. of pages 300
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity

HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, ancient history; classical art and civilization

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