As representações da deusa Ísis nas obras de Plutarco e Apuleio: as faces de uma divindade e seus cultos (sécs. I e II d.C.)

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Ellen Juliane Bueno dos
• Orientador(a): Gonçalves, Ana Teresa Marques
• Banca de defesa: Gonçalves, Ana Teresa Marques, Lessa, Fábio de Souza, Omena, Luciane Munhoz de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em História (FH)
• Departamento: Faculdade de História - FH (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ísis; Plutarco; Apuleio; Culto Isíaco; Representação
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Isis; Plutarch; Apuleius; Isiac cult; Representation
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA ANTIGA E MEDIEVAL
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/11847

The present dissertation aims to analyse and compare the representations of the goddess Isis and her cults. On the one hand, we analysed the representations constructed by the Greek Plutarch of Chaeronea in his work On Isis and Osiris. This treatise is an interpretation of the myth of these gods of the beginning of the II A.D century. On the other hand, we analysed the work Metamorphoses by Apuleius of Madaura. It is a novel written in Latin in the second half of the II A.D century. In this novel, a Corinthian ends up being metamorphosed into a donkey after an ill-fated practice because of his curiosity towards magic, but Isis intercedes and saved him. Based on the representations that both authors construct of Isis, an originally Egyptian goddess who suffers several changes during history, we can see how the authors adapt her to the various contexts of appropriation and domination. We believe that both authors produced religious identities of Isis that bring her closer to a function of the initiator of mysteries, i.e., a guide of the initiated to the truth contained in these rituals. Furthermore, we hold that based on this initiating function, these authors also point out how an Isiac should behave in order to meet the demands of this divinity and keep away from superstitious practices. Therefore, we aim to compare these constructed images of this divinity based on Plutarch and Apuleius.