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Isis in a Global Empire Lindsey A. Mazurek (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Isis in a Global Empire By Lindsey A. Mazurek (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Isis in a Global Empire by Lindsey A. Mazurek (Indiana University, Bloomington)


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This book offers academic readers a glimpse into the ways that religion, ethnicity, and globalization intersected in Rome's provinces. By focusing on the worship of Egyptian gods in Greece, it explores how process of appropriation and experiences of geographic space and historical time defined a religious minority in Roman-ruled Greece.

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Isis in a Global Empire: Greek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece by Lindsey A. Mazurek (Indiana University, Bloomington)

InIsis 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 asIsisand 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-identificationof provincial Romans and their place in the Mediterranean world.

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'The book is handsomely produced. The images, layout, type of paper, and general presentation are of high quality. Mazurek writes beautifully and clearly She analyzes the evidence judiciously and her engagement with the vast bibliography of Isis is thorough, without bogging the reader down with unnecessary detail. Most importantly, this book provides a powerful case for the value of its methodology.' Vassiliki, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

About Lindsey A. Mazurek (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Lindsey Mazurek is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington and co-editor of Across the Corrupting Sea:Post-Braudelian Approaches to theAncient Eastern Mediterranean. Her scholarship has been supported by the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the German Archaeological Institute, the Hardt Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Table of Contents

1. Egyptian religion and the problem of Greekness; 2. Building groupness: Isis' devotees and their communities; 3. Deterritorializing theology? Bringing the Egyptian gods to Greece; 4. Self-understanding: Visualizing Isis in stone; 5. Self-fashioning: Dressing devotees of Isis in Athenian portraits; 6. Self-location: Isiac sanctuaries and Nilotic fictions; 7. Conclusion: Graecia Capta, Aegypta Capta.

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NGR9781316517017
9781316517017
1316517012
Isis in a Global Empire: Greek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece by Lindsey A. Mazurek (Indiana University, Bloomington)
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Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2022-02-24
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