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Power, politics, and the cults of Isis: proceedings of the Vth International Conference of Isis studies, Boulogne-sur-Mer, October 13-15, 2011

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.

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Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, VOLUME 180

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[PRO-POL-000]

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ne : Brill Academic Publishers., 2014

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xvii, 364 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25

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English

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9789004277182

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BL2450.I7 C65 2011

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Table of contents : Part 1: Isis and the longue durée 1 Laurent Bricault and Miguel John Versluys: Isis and Empires 2 Frederick Naerebout: Cuius regio, eius religio? Rulers and Religious Change in Greco-Roman Egypt 3 Greg Woolf: Isis and the Evolution of Religions Part 2: Isis and the Hellenistic World 4 Bernard Legras: Sarapis, Isis et le pouvoir lagide 5 John Ma: Les cultes isiaques dans l’espace séleucide 6 Julien Aliquot: Les cultes isiaques et le pouvoir dans la Tétrapole syrienne 7 Christian-Georges Schwentzel: La reine Huldu et la coiffe isiaque. Isis et le pouvoir royal à Pétra (Ier s. av. J.-C.-Ier s. apr. J.-C.) 8 Paraskevi Martzavou: «Isis» et «Athènes»: épigraphie, espace et pouvoir à la basse époque hellénistique Part 3: Isis and the Roman World 9 Richard Veymiers: Le basileion, les reines et Actium 10 Giuseppina Capriotti Vittozzi: The Flavians: Pharaonic Kingship between Egypt and Rome 11 Valentino Gasparini: Les cultes isiaques et les pouvoirs locaux en Italie 12 Jean-Louis Podvin: Le tropisme isiaque des Sévères: une acmé reconsidérée? 13 Laurent Bricault: Gens isiaca et identité polythéiste à Rome à la fin du IVe s. apr. J.-C.

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