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1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One Egyptian Religion and the Problem of Greekness -- Isis in Greece: Framing the Question -- Setting the Scene: Greece under Roman Rule -- Viewership, Objects, and the Search for Ethnicity -- The Problem of Greekness -- The Beginnings -- Hellenistic Greekness: The Case of Ptolemaic Egypt -- Defining and Contesting Greekness in Roman Greece -- Chapter Outlines -- Chapter Two Building Groupness: Isis' Devotees and Their Communities |
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Constructing Groupness: Joining, Belonging, and Agency -- Apuleius as a Source for Isiac Rituals -- Rites as Social Structures: Defining Experiences of Time and Place -- Festivals -- Cult Associations as Social Groups -- Regulations as Common Social Action -- Building and Ordering Belonging -- Groupness as Event: Initiation as Cultic Paideia -- Practicing Family and Community at Roman Dion -- The Anthestii -- The Herennii -- Tying the Web: Migration and a Global Greek Isiac Community -- Human Migrations -- Textual Migrations -- Shaping Isiac Groupness |
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Chapter Three Deterritorializing Theology?: Bringing the Egyptian Gods to Greece -- From the Aegean to the Nile: Knowledge, Stereotype, and Interaction -- Building Classical Ideals of Egypt -- After Herodotus: Egypt in the Roman Mind -- Sarapis as Boundary Crosser -- From One, Many: Isis in the Greek Aretalogies -- Plutarch and Apuleius: Isis as a Middle Platonic Deity -- Epiphanic Expectations in Isiac Texts and Objects -- Bringing a Global Goddess to Greece -- Chapter Four Self-understanding: Visualizing Isis in Stone -- The Nile's Gods in White Marble -- Sarapis -- Isis |
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Color and Legibility in Isiac Ideal Images -- Polysemy on Display: The Sarapeum at Thessaloniki -- Excavation and Identification -- Ideal Statues in the Thessaloniki Sarapeum -- Synnaoi Theoi: Worshiping Egyptian and Greek Gods Together -- Divinity and Ethnicity: The Materiality of Sculptural Programs -- Chapter Five Self-fashioning: Dressing the Devotees of Isis in Athenian Portraits -- Gender and Ethnicity in Provincial Portraiture -- Women and Men in Palmyrene Portraits -- Audience and Display -- Isiac Grave Reliefs for Women -- Isiac Funerary Reliefs in an Athenian Context |
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Isiac Dress for Men? -- Looking Outward, Looking Inward -- Chapter Six Self-location: Isiac Sanctuaries and Nilotic Fictions -- The Nilotic Aesthetic -- Greek Nilotica -- The Sophist's Nile at Marathon: Herodes Atticus' Sanctuary -- The Egyptian Sanctuary at Marathon: Date and Use -- Architecture -- Time and Style in the Ideal Sculpture -- Gods, Portraits, and Roman Imperial Networks -- Sensory Reproductions: Water Features as Niles in Greek Sanctuaries -- Provincializing the Nile -- Chapter Seven Conclusion: Graecia Capta, Aegypta Capta |
| Summary |
It introduces a religious dimension to the study of ethnic identity and globalization in the provinces of the Roman Empire |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Isis (Egyptian deity) -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Isis (Egyptian deity) fast |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Religion
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Greece -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057127
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| Subject |
Greece
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1009037307 |
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9781009037303 |
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