The aim of these remarks is to bring to light some particular aspects in the enigmatic religious, mythological and ideological system inspired by Egypt, built into the Hadrianic environment, and the inter-cultural commitment, to which specialists of heterogeneous origin, and therefore also Egyptians, probably contributed. The phoenix is taken into account as image of the renovation of kingship, as well as other figures expressing the regenerating transfer of royalty in an Egyptian cyclic perspective.
EMPEROR HADRIAN AND EGYPT. REMARKS ON THE MYTHICAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES
Giuseppina Capriotti
2018
Abstract
The aim of these remarks is to bring to light some particular aspects in the enigmatic religious, mythological and ideological system inspired by Egypt, built into the Hadrianic environment, and the inter-cultural commitment, to which specialists of heterogeneous origin, and therefore also Egyptians, probably contributed. The phoenix is taken into account as image of the renovation of kingship, as well as other figures expressing the regenerating transfer of royalty in an Egyptian cyclic perspective.File in questo prodotto:
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