i_, 34).

42. Regarding all this see _Revue d'histoire et de litterat. relig._, VIII,
1903, pp. 423, ff.--Frazer (_Osiris, Attis, Adonis_, 1907, pp. 256 ff.) has
recently defended the position that the commemoration of the death of
Christ was placed by a great many churches upon March 25th to replace the
celebration of Attis's death on the same date, just as Christmas has been
substituted for the _Natalis Invicti_. The text of Ambrosiaster cited in
our article (Pseudo Augustin, _Quaest. veter. Test_, LXXXIV, 3, p. 145, 13,
Souter ed.) shows that this was asserted even in antiquity.

IV. EGYPT.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lafaye, _Histoire du culte des divinites d'Alexandrie hors de
l'Egypte_, Paris, 1884, and article "Isis" in Daremberg and Saglio,
_Dictionn. des antiquites_, III, 1899, {229} where may be found (p. 586) an
index of the earlier works.--Drexler, art. "Isis" in Roscher, _Lexikon der
Mythol._, II, p. 373-548.--Reville, _op. cit._, pp. 54 ff.--Wissowa, _op.
cit._, pp. 292 ff.--Dill, _op. cit._, pp. 560 ff.--Gruppe, _Griechische
Mythologie und Religionsgesch._, pp. 1563-1581 (published after the
revision of this chapter).--The study of the Roman cult of the Alexandrian
gods is inseparable from that of the Egyptian religion. It would be
impossible to furnish a bibliography of the latter here. We shall only
refer the reader to the general works of Maspero, _Etudes de Mythologie_, 4
vols., Paris, 1893, and _Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient_, 1895
(_passim_).--Wiedemann, _Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_, London, 1897
[cf. Hastings, _Dictionary of the Bible_, "Religion of Egypt," V, pp.
177-197].--Erman, _Die aegyptische Religion_, Berlin, 1910.--Naville, _La
religion des anciens Egyptiens_ (six lectures delivered at the College de
France), 1906.--W. Otto, _Priester und Tempel im hellenistischen Aegypten_,
2 vols., 1905, 1908.--The publication of a _Bulletin critique des religions
de l'Egypte_ by Jean Capart, begun in the _Rev. de l'hist. des religions_
(LI, 1905, pp. 192 ff.; LIII, 1906, pp. 307 ff.; 1909, pp. 162 ff.).

1. Cf. on this controversy Bouche-Leclercq, _Histoire des Lagides_, I, p.
102; S. Reinach, _Cultes, Mythes et Religions_, II, pp. 347 f.; Lehmann,
_Beitraege zur alten Geschichte_, IV, 1904, pp. 396 ff.; Wilcken, _Archiv f.
Papyrusforschung_, III, 1904, pp. 249 ff.; Otto, _Priester und Tempel_, I,
1905, pp. 11 ff.; Gruppe, loc. cit., pp. 1578 ff.; Petersen, _Die
Serapislegende_, 1910, pp. 47 ff.