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The Ptolemies had promoted a syncretic god , Serapis , whose cult had long ago spread to Rome and elsewhere . Other major deities , Isis and Osiris , were also worshipped abroad , identified with Demeter and Dionysos of the Greeks .
The Ptolemies had promoted a syncretic god , Serapis , whose cult had long ago spread to Rome and elsewhere . Other major deities , Isis and Osiris , were also worshipped abroad , identified with Demeter and Dionysos of the Greeks .
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In Egypt , alongside the pure or assimilated god of the official cult , he was invested by the common people with yet another form : the daemonic . In Plutarch's philosophic hierarchy daemons ' are closer to full gods than ' heroes ...
In Egypt , alongside the pure or assimilated god of the official cult , he was invested by the common people with yet another form : the daemonic . In Plutarch's philosophic hierarchy daemons ' are closer to full gods than ' heroes ...
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Some ingredient in his story , no doubt his voluntary sacrifice , justified this stress on his moral virtue which led to comparisons with that other god of vicarious sacrifice , Christ . As such he was an active worker for good when ...
Some ingredient in his story , no doubt his voluntary sacrifice , justified this stress on his moral virtue which led to comparisons with that other god of vicarious sacrifice , Christ . As such he was an active worker for good when ...
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Antinous the young Greek c 11023 | 15 |
Hadrian the Roman Emperor 76123 | 33 |
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