Isis from Egypt - and many other Egyptian gods- made her way to Rome in the Republican period. Her cult flourished in the imperial period, with a huge temple in the Campus Martius. She appeared elsewhere in imperial buildings as well as daily life, an accepted deity into the Roman pantheon.

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0:00 Introduction and early cult in Italy
2:52 Palestrina sanctuary
4:29 Early Isis sanctuary in Rome
5:31 Isis and Cleopatra and the conquest of Egypt
5:55 Iseum temple in Campus Martius
8:29 Isis on the Palatine Hill