The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the Heart of a Roman Cult is being presented at the Musée royal de Mariemont from 20 November 2021 to 17 April 2022, then at the Musée Saint-Raymond de Toulouse from 14 May 2022 to 30 October 2022, and lastly at the Archäologisches Museum Fra
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
Mithras: the Fellow in the Cap (1958) examined, with autodidactic zeal, the sun-worshipping cult, discerning the pagan roots of Christian rites with ‘disturbing conclusions about Christian orthodoxy’ (J. Wynne-Tyson, 354). (ODNB)
The following is the opinion of the great majority of learned men. By some it is maintained that there are two gods, rivals as it were, authors the one of good and the other of evil. Others confine the name of god to the good power, the other they term demon…
The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the Heart of a Roman Cult is being presented at the Musée royal de Mariemont from 20 November 2021 to 17 April 2022, then at the Musée Saint-Raymond de Toulouse from 14 May 2022 to 30 October 2022…
Cumont a relevé qu’un sacerdos des dieux palmyréniens fut accueilli en Dacie par les mystes de Mithra comme un adepte de leur religion. Nous aurons à nous souvenir de ces particularités tout en prenant garde qu’une rencontre est possible entre…
W. Vollgraff, Une inscription gravée sur un vase cultuel mithriaque. Extrait de : Mededelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afd. Letterkunde. Nieuwe Reeks, Deel 18, N° 8, pp. 205-218, 2 figg. et 1 pi. Prix : 1,25 fl…
Franz Cumont. — Les Religions orientales dans le paganisme romain, 4e éd. revue, illustrée et annotée. Un vol. in-8° carré de XVI et 339 pages. Paris, Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1929. L'ouvrage classique et magistral de notre…
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