Alexandrian Trinity in Roman Africa

Document Type : Brief summaries of Dissertations.

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Aswan University

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The Roman world was open to Eastern cultures borrowing from them, and it worshipped Greek Gods. The Romans adopted religious tolerance policy; they never interfered in religious beliefs. The inhabitants kept their old worshipping practices as usual.
Alexandria had witnessed the birth of Hellenistic Isis during the Ptolemaic period in Ptolemy I Soter's era. Hellenistic Isis adopted the qualities of such Greek Godesses as Dimitra and Venus, as well as her husband Serapis who kept the functions of the Egyptian God Osiris and her son Harpocrates all over the Roman world to the Alexandrian Triad including Isis, Serapis and Harpocrates to replace the Egyptian Triad represented in Isis, Osiris and Horus.

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