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in reply to a message by Dracotorix
It is not so strange. On this website you can read that Isis is the Greek form of Egyptian Ist. In Egyptian mythology Isis was the goddess of the sky and nature, and she was also worshipped by people outside of Egypt, such as the Greeks and Romans.
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There's some discussion here on Greek names honoring Isis, at Oxford's Lexicon of Greek Personal Names site:
http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/names/meaning.html
Isis worship became quite widespread among the Greeks and Romans both; you can visit a temple of Isis at Pompeii, for instance. It's also important to remember that as a result of Alexander the Great's conquests, and the subsequent Ptolemaic (Macedonian and Greek) dynasty in Egypt, there was a lot of cultural fusion going on. Egypt was full of Greek speakers, and Isidoros/Isidora are very well-represented names in documents from the Greco-Roman period.
http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/names/meaning.html
Isis worship became quite widespread among the Greeks and Romans both; you can visit a temple of Isis at Pompeii, for instance. It's also important to remember that as a result of Alexander the Great's conquests, and the subsequent Ptolemaic (Macedonian and Greek) dynasty in Egypt, there was a lot of cultural fusion going on. Egypt was full of Greek speakers, and Isidoros/Isidora are very well-represented names in documents from the Greco-Roman period.
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