How did Greeks worship Egyptian deities while living under Roman rule?

My first monograph studies how Greek devotees appropriated and reformed Egyptian deities and cults during their period of Roman rule. Focusing on the Hellenistic and Roman period, I argue that Greek cultic texts, ideal and portrait sculpture, and sanctuary landscapes reconfigured Isis set her deep into the past and reformed her into a Greek deity. These shifts reveal an alternative form of Greekness that was founded in its own importance and cosmopolitanism.

Winner, 2023 First Book Award, CAMWS.

Now available from Cambridge University Press.