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DESCRIPTION:When Lucius\, in the final book of the Metamorphoses\, prays to
  an unknown lunar goddess and receives a reply from Isis\, Apuleius has his
  characters\, one human and one divine\, address each another in Latin lite
 rary versions of well-known Greek texts: hymns and self-revelations of Isis
 .  Apuleius was not simply adapting particular texts\; he was also particip
 ating in a dialogical discourse attested in a range of Greek inscriptions a
 nd in the network of correspondences between them.  Several of these texts 
 adopt and adapt typical expressions and formal features from each other tha
 t were regarded as characteristics of a distinct genre of discourse.  Drawi
 ng on examples from the Memphite self-revelation of Isis\, the aretalogies 
 from Maroneia and Andros\, as well as the hymns of Isidorus from Medinet Ma
 di\, this talk explores the dialogical discourse of Greek hymnic texts belo
 nging to Isis and her circle.  While these texts have long been understood 
 as domesticating representations of an exotic divinity intended to facilita
 te her assimilation into Hellenistic and Roman societies\, examining them c
 ollectively and in their dialogical relations with one another shows that t
 heir discourse held a place for difference\, figuring Isis as a stranger wh
 o was neither fully assimilated nor wholly other.\n\nIan Moyer (associate p
 rofessor of history at the University of Michigan) explores the ancient his
 tory and modern historiography of cultural and intellectual encounters betw
 een ancient Greeks and Egyptians. His work ranges across history\, classica
 l studies\, Egyptology\, religion\, and reception studies\, and addresses q
 uestions of culture\, identity\, and agency in cross-cultural interactions.
  His first book\, Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism (2011)\, explores the a
 ncient history and modern historiography of cultural and intellectual encou
 nters between ancient Greeks and Egyptians. He is co-editor\, with Celia Sc
 hultz\, of a special issue of Archiv für Religionsgeschichte on “The Religi
 ous Life of Things” (2016)\; a collection of essays entitled Classicisms in
  the Black Atlantic (2020) with Adam Lecznar and Heidi Morse\; and a volume
  on Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East with Paul Kosmin (2022).
  With Chris Faraone\, Sophía Torallas Tovar and an international team of co
 llaborators\, he has produced a new edition of the hymns of Isidorus from M
 edinet Madi together with translations\, commentary and interpretive essays
  (forthcoming).  He is also currently writing a monograph entitled “At the 
 Gates of the Temple\,” in which he studies the gates and forecourts of temp
 les as a form of public space in first millennium BCE Egypt.\n\nSponsored b
 y the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest and the department of 
 Greek\, Latin\, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies. Free and open to the pub
 lic.
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SUMMARY:Greek Hymns to Egyptian Gods: Dialogue and Difference
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