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035 _a(DE-B1597)9783111435138
035 _a(DE-B1597)678883
035 _a(OCoLC)1455293262
040 _aDE-B1597
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSarischouli, Panagiota
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDecoding the Osirian Myth :
_bA Transcultural Reading of Plutarch’s Narrative /
_cPanagiota Sarischouli.
264 1 _aBerlin ;
_aBoston :
_bDe Gruyter,
_c[2024]
264 4 _c2024
300 _a1 online resource (XXXV, 517 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aTrends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ,
_x1868-4785 ;
_v163
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tContents --
_tAbbreviations --
_tIllustrations --
_tMaps --
_tEgyptian Chronology --
_tIntroduction --
_tPart I: Plutarch --
_t1 Plutarch’s Egyptian Treatise --
_t2 The Osirian Myth in Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride --
_tPart II: Religious, Mythological and Magical Traditions --
_t3 Egyptian Religious Tradition and Plutarch’s Narrative --
_t4 ‘Dying and Rising’ Gods in Near Eastern and Greek Traditions --
_t5 The Osirian Myth in Graeco-Egyptian Magic --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex of Passages Cited --
_tSubject Index
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe earliest written references to the Osirian myth-complex appeared already in the Pyramid Text spells (c. 2400–2300 BCE). The most complete exposition of this ancient Egyptian myth is, however, found in the Greek treatise On Isis and Osiris, in which the 2nd-century CE Platonist Plutarch utilises Egyptian mythology to advocate his philosophical ideas concerning the divine and the nature of the cosmos. This book aims at “decoding” Plutarch’s narrative of the Osirian myth, linking his claims to the existing Egyptian and Greek parallels. It thus analyses a multitude of mythic and religious traditions from a transcultural perspective, exploring the relation of the Pharaonic features of the Osirian divinities to the features they had acquired in Ptolemaic and Roman times, interpreting the Egyptian myth within the overall framework of parallel mythologies from other cultures, and examining whether the brief mythic stories (historiolae) recited in Late Egyptian ritual texts can be deployed to enrich the context of certain obscure episodes in Plutarch’s account of the myth. The book will be of great interest not only to scholars and students of Plutarch and later Middle Platonism, but also to Egyptologists. Due to its thematic variety and scope, this publication will also appeal to a wider array of readers (specialists and non-specialists alike) interested in religious syncretism, interreligious connections, and the challenge of multiculturalism from Hellenistic times until Late Antiquity.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Nov 2024)
650 4 _aAntike Religion.
650 4 _aOsiris-Mythos.
650 4 _aPlutarch.
650 4 _aSynkretismus.
653 _aEgypt.
653 _aOsirian myth.
653 _aPlutarch.
653 _aReligious syncretism.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783111435138
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111435138
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