Moralia, Volume V: Isis and Osiris (De Iside et Osiride)

De Iside et Osiride is the Greek philosopher Plutarch's own retelling and philosophical interpretation of the Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris, written in the late first or early second century CE, presented here in the standard Loeb Classical Library edition with Frank Cole Babbitt's translation facing the Greek text. Its authority as a primary source of Greco Roman engagement with Egyptian religion is well established, the Loeb series is the standard scholarly format for classical texts in translation. Its limit is exactly what the text itself is, a Greek outsider's philosophical reading of the myth written many centuries after Egyptian religion's height, shaped by Plutarch's own Middle Platonist concerns, so it should be read alongside native Egyptian textual sources for the myth's earlier, undistorted form rather than as that form itself.