Individuals and materials in the Greco-Roman cults of Isis : agents, images, and practices / editors, Valentino Gasparini, Richard Veymiers.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Gasparini, Valentino, editor.

Veymiers, Richard, editor.

Conference Name:

Colloque international sur les études isiaques (6th : 2013 : Erfurt, Germany ; Liege, Belgium), author.

Series:

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; 187.

Religions in the Graeco-Roman World ; Volume 187

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Greco-Roman--Congresses.

Civilization, Greco-Roman.

Civilization--Egyptian influences--Congresses.

Civilization.

Egypt--Religion--332 B.C.-640 A.D--Congresses.

Egypt.

Isis (Egyptian deity)--Congresses.

Isis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,191 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, [2018]

Language Note:

Text in English or French.

Summary:

In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of reflections on the individuals and groups which animated one of Antiquity’s most dynamic, significant and popular religious phenomena: the reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. These communities, whose members seem to share the same religious identity, for a long time have been studied in a monolithic way through the prism of the Cumontian category of the “Oriental religions”. The 26 contributions of this book, divided into three sections devoted to the “agents”, their “images” and their “practices”, shed new light on this religious movement that appears much more heterogeneous and colorful than previously recognized.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Preface / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

Acknowledgments

Participants

List of Plates, Graphs and Tables

Abbreviations

Agents, Images, Practices* / Richard Veymiers

Priests and Worshippers

Theorising Religion for the Individual* / Jörg Rüpke

Identités religieuses isiaques : pour la définition d’une catégorie historico-religieuse* / Giulia Sfameni Gasparro

What is a Priest of Ēse, of Wusa, and of Isis in the Egyptian and Nubian World? / Joachim Friedrich Quack

What is an Isiac Priest in the Greek World?* / Paraskevi Martzavou

Les prêtres isiaques du monde romain / Laurent Bricault

Isis Names in Graeco-Roman Egypt / Willy Clarysse

Social Agentivity in the Eastern Mediterranean Cult of Isis* / Jaime Alvar

Isiastai Sarapiastai: Isiac Cult Associations in the Eastern Mediterranean* / Ilias Arnaoutoglou

Images and Objects

L’apparence des isiaques : la réalité des stéréotypes littéraires / Ludivine Beaurin

La figure de Pharaon dans la Mensa isiaca et ses avatars italiens. Du temple pharaonique au temple isiaque / Marie-Christine Budischovsky

Du blanc, du noir et de la bigarrure : le jeu des couleurs dans les représentations d’isiaques / Adeline Grand-Clément

Ministers of Isiac Cults in Roman Wall Painting* / Eric M. Moormann

De « Scipion l’Africain » aux « prêtres isiaques » : à propos des portraits au crâne rasé avec cicatrice(s) / François Queyrel and Richard Veymiers

Mourir en isiaque ? Réflexions sur les portraits de momie de l’Égypte romaine* / Gaëlle Tallet

The Garments of the Devotees of Isis* / Sabine Albersmeier

Les dévotes isiaques et les atours de leur déesse / Michel Malaise and Richard Veymiers

Roman Children and the “Horus Lock” between Cult and Image* / Annika Backe-Dahmen

Des empereurs aux traits isiaques ? Images et contextes* / Emmanuelle Rosso

Rites and Practices

Archéologie des Isea: sur la difficile reconnaissance des pratiques isiaques / William Van Andringa

Material Evidence and the Isiac Cults: Art and Experience in the Sanctuary / Molly Swetnam-Burland

Les préposés au luminaire dans les cultes isiaques / Jean-Louis Podvin

Pèlerinages isiaques / Françoise Dunand

Dreams and Other Divine Communications from the Isiac Gods in the Greek and Latin Epigraphical Record* / Gil H. Renberg

Comments on the Egyptian Background of the Priests’ Procession during the Navigium Isidis* / Stefan Pfeiffer

Jouer, chanter et danser pour Isis / Laurent Bricault and Richard Veymiers

Les acteurs sur scène. Théâtre et théâtralisation dans les cultes isiaques* / Valentino Gasparini

Postface* / Robert Turcan

Plates

Back Matter

Bibliography.

Notes:

Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of Isis Studies (Erfurt, May 6-8, 2013 - Liege, September 23-24, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-38134-1

OCLC:

1066197011

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004381346 DOI