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Chapter Five - Self-fashioning

Dressing the Devotees of Isis in Athenian Portraits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2022

Lindsey A. Mazurek
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Indiana University, Bloomington
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This chapter focuses on funerary portraits from Roman Athens that depict women dressed as Isis as a method of self-fashioning: a process of using the body to embed oneself in existing categories, groups, and narratives. Using literary and artistic evidence, it argues that these women are probably initiates, and that the monuments promoted Greek viewers’ identification with the cult. Setting these images in a provincial context, it also suggests that the portraits make claims on both cult-specific Athenian, and more general Mediterranean-wide, forms of status.

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Isis in a Global Empire
Greek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece
, pp. 120 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Self-fashioning
  • Lindsey A. Mazurek, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Book: Isis in a Global Empire
  • Online publication: 06 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009032209.005
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  • Self-fashioning
  • Lindsey A. Mazurek, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Book: Isis in a Global Empire
  • Online publication: 06 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009032209.005
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  • Self-fashioning
  • Lindsey A. Mazurek, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Book: Isis in a Global Empire
  • Online publication: 06 February 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009032209.005
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