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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2322569, member: 57495&quot;]The cults of Isis and Serapis were very popular in the Roman world, initially with the lower classes. There was a temple to them in Rome built as early as the 1st century BC. There&#039;s also a famous temple of Isis in Pompeii and one discovered in London dating to the 1st century. </p><p><br /></p><p>Prudes like Augustus were very dismayed with the popularity of &#039;pornographic&#039; cults like that of Isis, but could do little to dampen their popularity. Caligula, however, was a fan and tolerated if not encouraged worship of Isis and Serapis. The Flavians were adherents of the cult (having gotten acquainted with it while they governed in the east), and Septimius Severus and Caracalla were fervent devotees of Serapis.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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