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This is the introductory chapter of the book, which describes and studies constructions of symbolic meaning through power and religion concerning the cults of Isis in the Hellenistic and Roman period. Between the beginning of the Hellenistic era and the end of the 4th century AD, the expectations and needs of the people living in the Hellenistic and Roman world changed significantly. Both Isis and Sarapis fitted the new preoccupations of the inhabitants of the Empires better than (some) other deities. Sarapis acquired a status and an image that allowed him to become part of the universal trinity of Zeus-Helios-Sarapis. It is crucial to recognise, moreover, that the couple Isis and Sarapis introduced by the Ptolemies at the beginning of the 3rd century BC was very different from the one that oversaw the destiny of the imperium romanum six centuries later. Keywords: Hellenistic era; Isis; Roman period; Sarapis
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