https://ancientrome.org/tags/isis/ Recent content in Isis on Ancient Rome Hugo en-us Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ancientrome.org/the-cult-of-isis-egypts-gift-to-rome/ Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ancientrome.org/the-cult-of-isis-egypts-gift-to-rome/ <p>Isis arrived in Rome over official objections. The Roman Senate banned her worship multiple times in the first century BC — in 58, 53, 50, and 48 BC, with varying degrees of enforcement — ordering her altars demolished and her images removed from the city. The bans failed because the cult&rsquo;s appeal was stronger than the official resistance, and by the first century AD the goddess who had been repeatedly expelled was being worshipped in temples funded by emperors. Caligula built her a major temple in the Campus Martius. Vespasian and Titus celebrated their triumph over Judaea in her temple precinct. Commodus appeared in her processions in priestly dress. Whatever the Senate of the Republic had thought about Egyptian divinities, the Empire had reached different conclusions.</p>