Decoding the Osirian Myth: A Transcultural Reading of Plutarch's Narrative - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Panagiota SarischouliSeries:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes #163Publish date:2024-09-23Pages:552
Language:EnglishPublisher:de GruyterISBN-13:9783111435022ISBN-10:3111435024UPC:9783111435022Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Ancient, HistoryBook Topic:EgyptSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.19 inchesWeight:2.0922Product ID:SCHMW4YJ8A
Decoding the Osirian Myth: A Transcultural Reading of Plutarch's Narrative
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...
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes #163
Language:EnglishPublisher:de GruyterISBN-13:9783111435022ISBN-10:3111435024UPC:9783111435022Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Ancient, HistoryBook Topic:EgyptSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.19 inchesWeight:2.0922Product ID:SCHMW4YJ8A
Panagiota Sarischouli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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