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Connecting the Isiac Cults - Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean (Hardcover)
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Connecting the Isiac Cults - Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean (Hardcover)
Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
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Why did Egyptian cults, especially those dedicated to the goddess
Isis and god Sarapis, spread so successfully across the ancient
Mediterranean after the death of Alexander the Great? How are we
limited by the established methodological apparatus of
historiography and which innovative methods from other disciplines
can overcome these limits? In this book, Tomas Glomb shows that
while the interplay of different factors such as the economy,
climate, and politics created favorable conditions for the early
spread of the Isiac cults, the use of innovative quantitative
methods can shed new light and help disentangle the complex
interplay of individual factors. Using a combination of geospatial
modeling, mathematical modeling, and network analysis, Glomb
determines that, at least in the regions of the Hellenistic Aegean
and western Asia Minor, the political channels created by the
Ptolemaic dynasty were a dominant force in the local spread of the
Isiac cults. An important contribution to the historiography of the
ancient Mediterranean, this book answers the specific question of
"how it happened" as well as, "how can we answer it beyond the
limits of the established methodological apparatus in
historiography."
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