Author: Tallet, Gaëlle.
Title: La splendeur des dieux: Quatre études iconographiques sur l'hellénisme égyptien. Vol. 1 & 2. [Complete two volume set].
Description: Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2020. 2 vols. XXIV,1308,[1] pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcovers (boards). 8vo. - Top of spine of vol. 1 with very light shelfwear (tiny crack of approx. 3 mm.). (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Vol. 193). [ISBN: 978-90-04-42891-1]. Why are the rays of the Greek god Helios on the forehead of a crocodile-headed Egyptian deity? Navigating the maze of Greek and Egyptian communities and creeds, Gaëlle Tallet investigates the plasticity of material culture in the polytheistic context of Graeco-Roman Egypt. Using the Ariadne’s thread of the manufacturing of new images, suitable to new needs and new understandings of the divine, La Splendeur des dieux opens the doors of the workshops where these images were designed, ordered and crafted. Tallet offers a full re-appraisal of the cultural balance of powers in Graeco-Roman Egypt, depicting the indigenous clergies and artists as integratedactors of an Egyptian Hellenicity that helped promote and preserve their millenaries-old traditions. - Text in French. - Publisher's retail price: € 318.28

Keywords: Archaeology Egypt Archeologie Egypte