It’s really hard to write a new book on Isis. A formidable amount of scholarship already exists: monographs, sourcebooks, and collections on the goddess’ cult, the temples, monuments, and artwork that has been found throughout the Mediterranean, the various texts that deal with her worship. Mazurek pulls off this daunting task with great success. Drawing from recent theoretical concepts of identity and ethnicity, she studies primarily the material evidence from Roman Greece and Asia Minor, probing the ways Isis worship can illuminate the concept of ethnic identification. The book argues that Isis proved to be a useful vehicle through which her devotees were able to navigate the many intersecting facets of their identity. Furthermore, Isis both functions as a symbol of the globalizing character of the Roman Empire and provides a medium for the expression of alterity and difference. Ultimately, Mazurek claims that Isis exemplifies the dynamic process through which Greek culture dominates while interacting with the tapestry of ethnic identities that make up the Roman Empire.