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NOTES EGYPT. 229
where may be found (p. 586) an index of the earlier works.
Drexler, art. "Isis" in Roscher, Lexikon der Mythol, II, p.
373-548. Reville, op. cit., pp. 54 ff. Wissowa, op. cit., pp.
292 ff. Dill, op. cit., pp. 560 ff. Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie
und Religionsgesch., pp. 1563-1581 (published after the
revision of this chapter). The study of the Roman cult of
the Alexandrian gods is inseparable from that of the Egyptian
religion. It would be impossible to furnish a bibliography of
the latter here. We shall only refer the reader to the general
works of Maspero, Etudes de Mythologie, 4 vols., Paris, 1893,
and Histoirc ancicnne des peuplcs de I Orient, 1895 (passim).
Wiedemann, Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, London,
1897 [cf. Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible, "Religion of
Egypt," V, pp. 177-197]. Erman, Die agyptische Religion,
Berlin, 1910. Naville, La religion des anciens Egypticns (six
lectures delivered at the College de France), 1906. W. Otto,
Priester und Tcmpel im hellenistischen Aegypten, 2 vols., 1905,
1908. The publication of a Bulletin critique des religions de
I Egypte by Jean Capart, begun in the Rev. de I hist. des reli
gions (LI, 1905, pp. 192 ff. ; LIII, 1906, pp. 307 ff.; 1909, pp.
162 ff.).
1. Cf. on this controversy Bouche-Leclercq, Histoire des
Lagides, I, p. 102; S. Reinach, Cultes, Mythes et Religions, II,
pp. 347 f. ; Lehmann, Beitrdge cur alien Geschichte, IV, 1904,
PP- 396 ff. ; Wilcken, Archiv f. Papyrusforschung, III, 1904,
pp. 249 ff.; Otto, Priester und Tcmpel, I, 1905, pp. n ff. ;
Gruppe, loc. cit., pp. 1578 ff.; Petersen, Die Serapislegendc,
1910, pp. 47 ff. ; Schmidt, Kultiibcrtragungen, 1910, pp. 47 ff.
2. Herodotus, II, 42, 171. Cf. n. 4.
3. yFJius Aristides, VIII, 56 (I, p. 96, ed. Dindorf). Cf.
Plut, De Iside et Osiride, ed. Parthey, p. 216.
4. Plut., DC Is. et Osir., 28; cf. Otto, Priester und Tempcl,
II, pp. 215 ff. This Timotheus is undoubtedly the same
one that wrote about the Phrygian mysteries; see infra, n.
79. The question, to what extent the Hellenistic cult had the
form ascribed to it by Plutarch and Apuleius immediately
after its creation, is still unsettled; see Otto, Priester und
Tempel, II, p. 222. We do not appear to have any direct
proof of the existence of "mysteries" of Isis and Serapis