Hymns to Isis in Her Temple at Philae
Hymns to Isis in Her Temple at Philae By Louis V. Zabkar
1988 | 223 Pages | ISBN: 0874513952 | scanned PDF | 136 MB
1988 | 223 Pages | ISBN: 0874513952 | scanned PDF | 136 MB
One word will summarize my opinion: Wonderful. This book translates and analyses in-depth a series of eight hymns to Isis, the Great Mother, furnishing the reader with a wealth of material on the cult of the Goddess not to be found elsewhere. In the eipilogue, the author comments upon the relationship existing between native (Egyptian) and Hellenistic hymns to her, slipping the suggestion that the Philae ones might have been the prototype or source of inspiration for the first Greek aretalogical texts in honor to Isis. These texts are both important for the history context and the religious history of Egypt and Greece: so that it would be useful to Egyptologists, Hellenists, Historians of Religion and of Art. The photographic record of deities and royalty from the Ptolemaic Period is outstanding.