As representações da deusa Ísis nas obras de Plutarco e Apuleio: as faces de uma divindade e seus cultos (sécs. I e II d.C.)
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2021-09-13
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The present dissertation aims to analyse and compare the representations of the goddess Isis and her
cults. On the one hand, we analysed the representations constructed by the Greek Plutarch of
Chaeronea in his work On Isis and Osiris. This treatise is an interpretation of the myth of these gods of
the beginning of the II A.D century. On the other hand, we analysed the work Metamorphoses by
Apuleius of Madaura. It is a novel written in Latin in the second half of the II A.D century. In this
novel, a Corinthian ends up being metamorphosed into a donkey after an ill-fated practice because of
his curiosity towards magic, but Isis intercedes and saved him. Based on the representations that both
authors construct of Isis, an originally Egyptian goddess who suffers several changes during history, we
can see how the authors adapt her to the various contexts of appropriation and domination. We believe
that both authors produced religious identities of Isis that bring her closer to a function of the initiator
of mysteries, i.e., a guide of the initiated to the truth contained in these rituals. Furthermore, we hold
that based on this initiating function, these authors also point out how an Isiac should behave in order
to meet the demands of this divinity and keep away from superstitious practices. Therefore, we aim to
compare these constructed images of this divinity based on Plutarch and Apuleius.
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Ísis , Plutarco , Apuleio , Culto Isíaco , Representação , Isis , Plutarch , Apuleius , Isiac cult , Representation
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SANTOS, E. J. B. As representações da deusa Ísis nas obras de Plutarco e Apuleio: as faces de uma divindade e seus cultos (sécs. I e II d.C.). 2021. 233 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2021.