Plutarch On Isis and Osiris

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Plutarch On Isis and Osiris is an ancient philosophical and religious treatise in which the Greek writer Plutarch interprets the Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris through a Hellenistic and allegorical lens.

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instanceOf Greek prose work
Middle Platonist work
ancient philosophical treatise
religious treatise
aimsTo reconcile Egyptian religion with Greek philosophy
alsoKnownAs De Iside et Osiride
approximateDate 1st century CE
author Plutarch
circulatedIn Byzantine scholarly tradition
Late Antiquity
compares Egyptian gods and Greek gods
discusses cosmology
divine providence
good and evil
nature of the soul
field Egyptology (as early source)
classical philosophy
history of religions
genre mythological commentary
philosophical allegory
religious exegesis
hasForm continuous prose essay
hasInfluenceOn Renaissance esoteric interpretations of Egypt
modern studies of ancient mystery cults
influencedBy Platonic philosophy
Pythagorean ideas
Stoic allegorical traditions
intendedAudience educated Greek and Roman readers
interprets Egyptian religious symbols
myth of Isis and Osiris
language Ancient Greek
mainSubject Ancient Egyptian religion
surface form: Egyptian mythology

Egyptian religion
Hellenistic philosophy
Isis
Osiris
allegorical interpretation of myth
modernTitle Plutarch On Isis and Osiris self-linksurface differs
surface form: On Isis and Osiris
partOf Moralia
philosophicalTradition Middle Platonism
preservedIn manuscripts of Plutarch’s Moralia
setting Classical antiquity
surface form: Greco-Roman world
sourceFor Greek understanding of Egyptian religion
later Neoplatonic interpretations of Egyptian myths
treatsAsSymbol Isis as philosophical wisdom
Osiris as rational principle
Typhon as evil or disorder
usesMethod allegorical interpretation
comparative religion
philosophical exegesis
workForm treatise

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Osiris myth associatedText Plutarch On Isis and Osiris
murder of Osiris describedIn Plutarch On Isis and Osiris
this entity surface form: Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride
Plutarch On Isis and Osiris modernTitle Plutarch On Isis and Osiris self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: On Isis and Osiris