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Decoding The Osirian Myth

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Author : Panagiota Sarischouli
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-09-23

Decoding The Osirian Myth written by Panagiota Sarischouli and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-23 with History categories.

The 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.

Decoding The Osirian Myth

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Author : Panagiota Sarischouli
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-09-23

Decoding The Osirian Myth

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Author : Panagiota Sarischouli
language : en
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Release Date : 2024-09-09

Decoding The Osirian Myth written by Panagiota Sarischouli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-09 with Literary Criticism categories.

Egyptologists and classicists alike agree that the most complete ancient exposition of the Osirian myth is found in Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris, dating from the first quarter of the 2nd century CE. This book "decodes" Plutarch's narrative of t

Greek Myth And Religion

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Author : Harvey Yunis
language : en
Publisher: de Gruyter
Release Date : 2019-08-05

Greek Myth And Religion written by Harvey Yunis and has been published by de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-05 with Greece categories.

This volume contains the collected papers of Albert Henrichs on the subject of ancient Greek myth and religion. Spanning Henrichs' long career as a leading scholar in the field, these papers concern sacrifice, ritual, the Greek gods, and the myths