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Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas
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In Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas, Laurent Bricault, one of the principal scholars of the cults of Isis, presents a new interpretation of the multiple sources that p...
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21 November 2019

In Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas, Laurent Bricault, one of the principal scholars of the cults of Isis, presents a new interpretation of the multiple sources that present Isis as a goddess of the seas. Bricault discusses a wealth of relatively unknown archaeological and textual data, drawing on a profound knowledge of their historical context.
After decades of scholarly study, Bricault offers an important contribution and a new phase in the debate on understanding the “diffusion” as well as the “reception” of the cults of Isis in the Graeco-Roman world. This book, the first English-language monograph by the leading French scholar in the field, underlines the importance of Isis Studies for broader debates in the study of ancient religion.
After decades of scholarly study, Bricault offers an important contribution and a new phase in the debate on understanding the “diffusion” as well as the “reception” of the cults of Isis in the Graeco-Roman world. This book, the first English-language monograph by the leading French scholar in the field, underlines the importance of Isis Studies for broader debates in the study of ancient religion.
Price: $215.00
Pages: 384
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
Publication Date:
21 November 2019
ISBN: 9789004413894
Format: Hardcover
"Der Band bietet mit seinem zusätzlichen Quellenmaterial, der Einarbeitung neuerer Forschungsergebnisse sowie den zahlreichen hochwertigen Abbildungen ein willkommenes und qualitativ überzeugendes Update zur französischen Erstauflage, auch wenn über Einzelfragen insbesondere zum ägyptischen Hintergrund diskutiert werden kann. Durch die englische Übersetzung dürfte die Monographie nun auch einem noch weiteren Rezipientenkreis offenstehen. [...] Der Band ist für jeden Forscher zum griechisch-römischen Isis- und Sarapiskult ein unabkömmliches Grundlagenwerk, das einen auch für Nichtspezialisten verständlichen und gut benutzbaren Überblick über das Thema bietet."
Svenja Nagel, in Gnomon 4/97/2025
Svenja Nagel, in Gnomon 4/97/2025
Laurent Bricault>, Ph.D. (Paris-Sorbonne 1994), is Professor of Roman History at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Well known in the domain of Isis studies, he is the author of the Atlas de la diffusion des cultes isiaques (2001, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) and has recently published Les cultes isiaques dans le monde gréco-romain (2013, Les Belles Lettres).