GLOMB, Tomáš. Connecting the Isiac Cults : Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 192 pp. Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation. ISBN 978-1-350-21069-1. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350210721.
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Original name Connecting the Isiac Cults : Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean
Authors GLOMB, Tomáš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition London, 192 pp. Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation, 2022.
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
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Original language English
Type of outcome Book on a specialized topic
Field of Study 60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/22:00127608
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
ISBN 978-1-350-21069-1
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350210721
Keywords in English Isiac culs; Ptolemies; formal modeling; Hellenistic Aegean; GIS
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Why did Egyptian cults, especially those dedicated to the goddess Isis and god Sarapis, spread so successfully across the ancient Mediterranean after the death of Alexander the Great? How are we limited by the established methodological apparatus of historiography and which innovative methods from other disciplines can overcome these limits? In this book, Tomáš Glomb shows that while the interplay of different factors such as the economy, climate, and politics created favorable conditions for the early spread of the Isiac cults, the use of innovative quantitative methods can shed new light and help disentangle the complex interplay of individual factors. Using a combination of geospatial modeling, mathematical modeling, and network analysis, Glomb determines that, at least in the regions of the Hellenistic Aegean and western Asia Minor, the political channels created by the Ptolemaic dynasty were a dominant force in the local spread of the Isiac cults. An important contribution to the historiography of the ancient Mediterranean, this book answers the specific question of “how it happened” as well as, “how can we answer it beyond the limits of the established methodological apparatus in historiography.”
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