By Laurent Bricault, Miguel John Versluys
Within the Hellenistic and Roman global intimate family existed among these keeping energy and the cults of Isis. This publication is the 1st to chart those numerous appropriations over the years inside a comparative standpoint. Ten conscientiously chosen case stories convey that “the Egyptian gods” have been no unique outsiders to the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean, yet constituted a good institutionalised and often used non secular choice. starting from the early Ptolemies and Seleucids to overdue Antiquity, the case reports illustrate how a lot symbolic that means was once made with the cults of Isis by means of kings, emperors, towns and elites. 3 articles introduce the topic of Isis and the longue durée theoretically, concurrently exploring a brand new method in the direction of techniques like ruler cult and Religionspolitik.
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36 This Isiac headdress can only be found in Seleucid coinage of the reign of Cleopatra Thea and that of a number of her sons and successive spouses. The daughter of Ptolemy VI Philometor, who, for twenty-five years, dominated the Seleucid monarchy, never missed an opportunity to flaunt her origins, her lineage, and the goddess who protected the dynasty. A century later, the same heritage is claimed on the other side of the Mediterranean. -L. Ryhiner, La mise en place des pouvoirs divin et royal dans l’univers tentyrique ptolémaïque, BIFAO 103 (2003) 421–438, and G.
This “specific nature” revolves around characteristics like facilitating connectivity and the development of universalism. 103 Although we very well realise that Empires do much more (and much more malign things) than that, we are confident that the present volume shows that this is a fruitful perspective for further research (see below). Taking up some of the main theoretical points raised by former Isis conferences and their formulation and interpretation in the articles by Naerebout and Woolf in this volume—as summarised above—the next section will, as a kind of outlook to this Introduction, discuss the central notions of symbolic culture and connectivity in relation to one another and to the cults of Isis.
Proceedings of the IVth International Conference of Isis Studies, Liège, November 27–29, 2008 (Leiden & Boston 2010). 102 Cf. ), Egyptian gods in the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean. 26 Bricault and Versluys a good start for the reasons explained in the first part of this article: a lot of meaning is made with the Egyptian gods by means of power and politics. In Boulogne we tried to understand these various appropriations in relation to one another, taking the immense connectivity of the Hellenistic and Roman world as a (logical) point of departure.