Isis and Demeter

Symbols of Divine Motherhood

Bibliographic Data

ID9339544
AuthorsVincent Arieh Tobin (corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume28
Pages187-187
Publication date1991-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0065-9991 • E-ISSN: 2330-1880
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/40000579
OpenAlexW2320075239
LanguageEN
Citations received6

The Greek historian Herodotus, in his eagerness to make highly inclusive comparisons between Egyptian and Greek religion, emphasized the fact that the Egyptian Isis could be identified with the Greek Demeter, and that the rituals of the latter, the Thesmophoria,1 had at an early stage been brought to Greece from Egypt.2 An identification between Isis and Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, was suggested by Plutarch,3 who also saw similarities between the rites of Isis and the Greek Thesmophoria,4 while Diodorus Siculus also pointed to the similarity between Isis and Demeter.5 Diodorus, in fact, went well beyond stating a similarity between Isis and Demeter and maintained that the Egyptians themselves said that Isis and Demeter were

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