Les Cultes à mystères dans l'antiquité
Le livre de Walter Burkert permet de comprendre mieux ce que représentaient pour les hommes et les femmes de l’Antiquité les initiations aux mystères: mystères d'Eleusis, mystères dionysiaques, mystères de la Grande Mère, mystères d'Isis, mystères de Mithra, et tant d'autres. S'il réu…
Books on Mithras
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
En los oscuros lugares del saber
El poema de Parménides del siglo V a. C. es, además de uno de los pilares de la cultura occidental, un texto enigmático que ha desafiado a todos sus intérpretes durante más de dos mil quinientos años. A partir de un profundo conocimiento de la filol…
Le Langage des oiseaux
Tous les oiseaux, connus et inconnus, se réunirent un jour pour constater qu'il leur manquait un roi. Exhortés par la huppe - messagère d'amour dans le Coran -, ils décidèrent de partir à la recherche de l'oiseau-roi Simorg, symbole de Dieu dans la …
Sol: Image and Meaning of the Sun in Roman Art and Religion
With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical an…
Corpus Hermeticum
The links between Egypt and Greece are strong and long-standing, and although Herodotus was frightened by the zoomorphic gods, the two cultures continued to influence each other. The god Thoth, the author of religious books according to Egyptian belief, w…
A Presocratics Reader. Selected fragments and testimonia. Second edition
Building on the virtues that made the first edition of A Presocratics Reader the most widely used sourcebook for the study of the Presocratics and Sophists, the second edition offers even more value and a wider selection of fragments from these philosophi…
Zurvanian Ceremony : Texts Zurvanism
In the present book the roots of this Abin have been examined. First, the author to the maximum of Zarwat and Memoirs of Horsemen and narratives in Zarvani's senses. The oldest. In continuation of Zoroastrian religion. The legend of two twins from the ori…
Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces. Space Sacralisation and Religious Communication during the Principate (1st–3rd century AD)
The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where t…
The Poison King. The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart’s first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues…
Arcanum
