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Isis in a Global Empire - Greek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece (Hardcover)
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Isis in a Global Empire - Greek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece (Hardcover)
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In Isis in a Global Empire, Lindsey Mazurek explores the growing
popularity of Egyptian gods and its impact on Greek identity in the
Roman Empire. Bringing together archaeological, art historical, and
textual evidence, she demonstrates how the diverse devotees of gods
such as Isis and Sarapis considered Greek ethnicity in ways that
differed significantly from those of the Greek male elites whose
opinions have long shaped our understanding of Roman Greece. These
ideas were expressed in various ways - sculptures of Egyptian
deities rendered in a Greek style, hymns to Isis that grounded her
in Greek geography and mythology, funerary portraits that depicted
devotees dressed as Isis, and sanctuaries that used natural and
artistic features to evoke stereotypes of the Nile. Mazurek's
volume offers a fresh, material history of ancient globalization,
one that highlights the role that religion played in the
self-identification of provincial Romans and their place in the
Mediterranean world.
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