Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas

ISBN: 9789004413894 出版年：2019 页码：402 Laurent Bricault Brill

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.