The Mystery of Mithras. Exploring the heart of a Roman cult
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
Books on Mithras
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
Julien dit l'Apostat
Dans la longue liste des empereurs romains, Julien l'Apostat, régnant seul de 361 à 363, tient une place à part. Il doit son surnom à sa tentative de restaurer la religion païenne dans l''empire romain, à l'époque où le christianisme s'impose à t…
Beck on Mithraism. Collected Works with New Essays
A venerable scholar of Mithraism, Beck assembles 17 reprinted and original articles from the past three decades that underpin the project to comprehend and describe the Mithraic mysteries more effectively than the traditional methods for studying the cult…
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…
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…
Mithriaca IV. Le Monument d'Ottaviano Zeno et le culte de Mithra sur le Célius
Ce IVe fascicule de Mithriaca concerne un très curieux monument exhumé au XVIe siècle sur le site d'un Mithraeum romain qu'on localise tout près de l'église S. Maria in Domnica, non loin de S. Stefano Rotondo où un autre spelaeum fut mis au jour en …
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…
Mithra, Zoroastre et la préhistoire aryenne du christianisme
« Voici un livre écrit dans l'enthousiasme, et capable de susciter des vocations. Il s'adresse à un public assez large, ce qui en excuse d'avance certains rapprochements un peu gros et certaines redites, point inutiles quand il s'agit de notions ou de …
Archäologie des Mithraskultes. Architektur und Kultpraxis am Beispiel der Tempel von Güglingen, Kreis Heilbronn
In 1999 and 2002, two mithraeums were discovered in Güglingen. The first was a stone building and at the time of its discovery had already been stripped of almost all its temple furnish
Arcanum
