Individuals and Materials in the Greco-roman Cults of Isis ― Agents, Images, and Practices

In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present 26 studies with a focus on the individuals and groups which animated the diffusion and reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds.

Valentino Gasparini, Ph.D. (Siena, 2009), is currently Research Fellow at the University Carlos III of Madrid, leading a project on “Lived Ancient Religion in North Africa” (2018-2022). He is going to defend his habilitation at the University of Erfurt with a dissertation entitled Isiacus. Agency, experience and communication in everyday Isiac cultic practice. Richard Veymiers, Ph.D. (Liege, 2008), serves as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Leiden University and will start a directorship at the Royal Museum of Mariemont in 2018. His scholarly interests (exemplified by the volumes of the Bibliotheca Isiaca series) focus on the functioning of visual cultures and their role within the processes of culture-contact, mobility and transference in the ancient societies.