Die religionspolitische Bedeutung des Isis-Kultes im antiken Mittelmeerraum

Power, Politics and the Cults of Isis

Proceedings of the Vth International Conference of Isis Studies,
Boulogne-sur-Mer, October 13-15, 2011

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by Laurent Bricault (Universite de Toulouse Le Mirail) and Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University)

Leiden (NL): Brill 2014, XVIII, 350 pp.

ISBN13: 

9789004277182

E-ISBN: 

9789004278271

Main Series: 

Religions in the Graeco-Roman World

Vol. 180

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In the Hellenistic and Roman world intimate relations existed between those holding power and the cults of Isis. This book is the first to chart these various appropriations over time within a comparative perspective. Ten carefully selected case studies show that “the Egyptian gods” were no exotic outsiders to the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean, but constituted a well institutionalised and frequently used religious option. Ranging from the early Ptolemies and Seleucids to late Antiquity, the case studies illustrate how much symbolic meaning was made with the cults of Isis by kings, emperors, cities and elites. Three articles introduce the theme of Isis and the longue durée theoretically, simultaneously exploring a new approach towards concepts like ruler cult and Religionspolitik.

Biographical note

Laurent Bricault holds a PhD in Egyptology from the Sorbonne and is Professor of Roman history at Universite de Toulouse Le Mirail.

Miguel John Versluys holds a PhD in Classical Archaeology from Leiden University and is associate Professor at its Faculty of Archaeology.

They are both well known for their many publications on Isis studies and cultural transferences concerning Egypt and the Hellenistic and Roman world. Their three previous volumes in this domain - Nile into Tiber. Egypt in the Roman world (RGRW 159) from 2007, Isis on the Nile. Egyptian gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt (RGRW 171) from 2010 and Egyptian gods in the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean: Image and reality between local and global (MYTHOS supplement 3) from 2012 – have reinvigorated (theoretical) debates within the field of Isis studies. It is hoped that the present volume not only continues that development, but also makes the cults of Isis part of wider discussions concerning the (religious) history and archaeology of the ancient world.

Contributors:  Julien Aliquot (Lyon), Laurent Bricault (Toulouse), Giuseppina Capriotti Vittozzi (Rome), Valentino Gasparini (Erfurt), Bernard Legras (Paris), John Ma (Oxford), Paraskevi Martzavou (Oxford), Frederick G. Naerebout (Leiden), Jean-Louis Podvin (Boulogne-sur-Mer), Christian-Georges Schwentzel (Valenciennes), Miguel John Versluys (Leiden), Richard Veymiers (Liège), Greg Woolf (St-Andrews).

Inhalt / Content 

• Remains of the ritual at the sanctuary of Poggio Colla

  • Author: P. Gregory Warden, pp.: 107–122 (16)

• Preliminary Material, pp.: i–xviii

• The Thirteenth Apostle, pp.: 217–278 (62)

• Le rite des auspices à Rome : quelle évolution ? Réflexions sur la transformation de la divination publique des Romains entre le III e et le I er siècle avant notre ère

  • Author: John Scheid, pp.: 109–128 (20)

• Pluton Africain, pp.: 325–342 (18)

• Hermès et la mantique grecque,  Author: Dominique Jaillard, pp.: 91–107 (17)

• Philo’s Stylemes vs Armenian Translation Stylemes

  • Author: Romano Sgarbi, pp.: 147–154 (8)

• Eshmoun / Esculape Et Eshmoun / Apollon

  • pp.: 165–200 (36)

• The Use Of Οργια After Alexander

  • pp.: 145–182 (38)

• Shenoute of Atripe and the christian destruction of temples in Egypt: rhetoric and reality

  • Author: Stephen Emmel, pp.: 162–203 (42)

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