Aleksandra Nikoloska Religious communications through Via Egnatia in Roman times (original) (raw)

Via Egnatia has long been a road that connected people, goods and ideas over a great historical time span and geographical expanse , bringing the Italian peninsula closer to Asia Minor by way of the Balkans. Besides trade and the military, religious communications also traversed the route. In this paper I consider the case of dissemination of the Egyptian cults and the cult of Nemesis in Roman times by examining the archaeological material. Along the route of Via Egnatia there are considerable testimonies to the cults of Isis and the Egyptian deities.