Osiris
deity figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Protrepticus
Egyptian god whose image, per Clement's source, was refashioned into the Sarapis statue.
he himself, then, ordered his own ancestor Osiris to be wrought sumptuously, and Bryaxis the craftsman made him — not the Athenian, but another of the same name as that Bryaxis — who used a mixed and varied material for the work.
The Histories
Egyptian god identified with the Greek Dionysus; worshipped, with Isis, by all Egyptians alike.
For no gods are worshipped by all Egyptians in common except Isis and Osiris, who they say is Dionysus;
Barlaam and Josaphat
Egyptian god, husband/brother of Isis, slain by Typhon.
For from the beginning they worshipped Isis, who had as brother and husband Osiris, who was slaughtered by his brother Typhon.
Adversus Marcionem
Egyptian deity whose myth is allegorized as the cycle of crops and seasons.
So too Osiris, who is forever buried and sought in what is living and found with joy, they make an argument for the recurrence of crops and the renewal of the elements of life and the returning year;
De Pallio
Egyptian deity, subject of a reported tradition transmitted by Alexander and his mother.
Come now, take from your own store what the Egyptians relate, and Alexander sets in order, and his mother reads, concerning the time of Osiris, when Ammon comes to him out of Libya, rich in sheep.