Et si on reparlait du crime d’Aphroditopolis... Réminiscences de mythologies régionales égyptiennes dans le De Iside et Osiride de Plutarque

This article looks at the subject from the angle of the crime at Aphroditopolis, where the goddess Isis is beheaded by her son Horus, and the consequences of this. It raises the problem of a simplified, euphemistic rereading of the Egyptian myth in Plutarch's work. In his Isis and Osiris, the author, who has no access to hieroglyphic texts, exploits Greco-Egyptian sources apparently based on regional monographs compiled in the Late Period, such as the Papyrus Jumilhac or the Papyrus of Tebtynis, by learned priests, and rooted in the most ancient tradition.