Chapter Seven - Conclusion

Summary

This concluding chapter explores the construction of Greekness through Egyptian religion in Roman Greece. Using a scene from Apuleius’ Met. XI as a central theme, the questions of intersectional ethnicity, deterritorialization of Egypt, materiality, difference, and colonial experience are discussed. Isiac Greekness is then contrasted with well-defined Second Sophistic forms of Greekness, revealing that Isiac identity is defined according to different time-scales and geographical referents from, but through similar methods to, traditional forms of Greek ethnicity.