Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | January 1, 1997| | Copyright

SAROLTA A. TAK,CS, Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World (Religions in the GraecoRoman World 124; Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1995). Pp. xiv + 235. Nlg 110, $63.

The title of this revised dissertation from the University of California at Los Angeles suggests to the reader that he or she will find in it a comprehensive treatment of the cult of Isis and Sarapis as this existed in republican and imperial times, but this is not at all what Takacs's rather specialized study offers, a study much better described by her original title, Roman Politics and the Cult of Isis and Sarapis. T., that is ...

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