Estrangement and Rapprochement: The Alleged Egyptian Origin of Graeco-Roman Processions

Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo

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Chapter 12 Estrangement and Rapprochement: The Alleged Egyptian Origin of Graeco-Roman Processions

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Pages:: 212–225

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004545632_014

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From Herodotus on, Graeco-Roman tradition attributed an Egyptian origin to the widespread Mediterranean custom of parading the gods on a platform. The aim of this chapter is to analyse one of the many ways of creating and recreating a shared cultural universe that lessens the distance between two groups that were initially alien to each other. A combination of estrangement and rapprochement let Egyptian culture appear as fully exotic (it remained the “Other”), and at the same time as the antecedent of the dominant group’s customary way of doing things (thus also becoming part of “us”). Three passages by Claudian (IV Cos. 568–574), Servius (Ad Aen. 6.68) and Macrobius (Sat. 1.23.13) alluding to the Egyptian custom of transporting the images of the gods on platforms helped to recreate a common cultural space between the two traditions, and also conferred respectability on this ritual at times when this might be particularly necessary.

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Understanding Integration in the Roman World

Series: Impact of Empire, Volume: 47

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004545632

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Aug 2023

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Part 1 Integration: A Conceptual Battlefield

Part 2 Non-elite and Local Processes of Integration

Part 3 Integration of Diversity in the Social and Cultural Spheres

Part 4 Integration of Diversity in the Religious Sphere

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