Isis in the Ancient WorldThe first study to document the extent and complexity of the cult's influence on Graeco-Roman and early Christian culture, R. E. Witt's acclaimed Isis in the Ancient World is now available in paperback Worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis dates as far back as 2500 B.C. and extended at least until the fifth century A.D. throughout the Roman world. The importance of her cult is attested to in Apuleius's Golden Ass, and evidence of its influence has been found in places as far apart as Afghanistan and Portugal, the Black Sea and northern England. The first study to document the extent and complexity of the cult's influence on Graeco-Roman and early Christian culture, R. E. Witt's acclaimed Isis in the Ancient World is now available in paperback. |
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 7 |
PREFACE II | 11 |
THE ANCIENT GODDESS OF THE NILE | 13 |
III | 19 |
ISIS GIVER OF LIFE | 25 |
OSIRISBROTHER HUSBAND SON | 36 |
THE SPREAD OF THE EGYPTIAN FAITH | 46 |
IN THE HOUSE OF ISIS | 59 |
THE HOLY SERVANTS OF ISIS | 89 |
TELLING FORTH HER PRAISES | 100 |
THE ONE WHOSE NAMES CANNOT BE NUMBERED III | 111 |
THE ALLLOVING MOTHER | 130 |
GREAT ARTEMISISIS | 141 |
MYSTERY AND SACRAMENT | 152 |
THE PROCESSION TO THE SHIP | 165 |
HEALING THE SICK | 185 |