Deconstruction of Aegyptiaca Romana: historiographical transformations and problem statement
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https://doi.org/10.52575/2687-0967-2021-48-4-749-754Keywords:
Ancient Rome, Egypt, Aegyptiaca Romana, perception of foreign cultureAbstract
The article analyzes the approaches and concepts of research devoted to the problems of studying Aegyptiaca Romana in Roman society in foreign classical studies. In the historiography of Aegyptiaca Romana, the religious interpretation, mainly associated with the cult of Isis, has long been the dominant paradigm. Only in the mid-1990s and early 2000s did the first works appear in which there is a rejection of the dogmatic attitude to search for a religious context with an emphasis on general cultural interpretation. In general, the most important result of the research carried out to date is the understanding that the one-sided interpretation of Aegyptiaca Romana as closely related to the religious context was erroneous, and the study of the ideas about Aegyptiaca Romana should be based on the entire set of the historical relations between Egypt and Rome, it is necessary to take into account the context, the relationship of form and material, the specifics of stylistic expression, and also to consider the possibility of a wider range of interpretations of cultic images, but without shifting to a new extreme of complete rejection of the religious context.
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