Book contents
- Isis in a Global Empire
- Isis in a Global Empire
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Egyptian Religion and the Problem of Greekness
- Chapter Two Building Groupness
- Chapter Three Deterritorializing Theology?
- Chapter Four Self-understanding
- Chapter Five Self-fashioning
- Chapter Six Self-location
- Chapter Seven Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter One - Egyptian Religion and the Problem of Greekness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 February 2022
- Isis in a Global Empire
- Isis in a Global Empire
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Egyptian Religion and the Problem of Greekness
- Chapter Two Building Groupness
- Chapter Three Deterritorializing Theology?
- Chapter Four Self-understanding
- Chapter Five Self-fashioning
- Chapter Six Self-location
- Chapter Seven Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter sets the practice of Egyptian religion in Greece in an imperial and global context. The rise of Isis and Sarapis as popular gods is considered alongside the development of Greek identities found in Second Sophistic literature and Roman provincial archaeology. Proposing a more intersectional and process-based approach, this chapter suggests a new framework for considering minority forms of ethnicity in the Roman Empire.
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- Isis in a Global EmpireGreek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece, pp. 1 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022