Mithras platonicus. Recherches sur l'hellénisation philosophique de Mithra
Robert Turcan, Mithras Platonicus. Recherches sur l'hellénisation philosophique de Mithra. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1975. 24 x 15,5, xι + 145 p., 5 pi. d'illustr. h. t., 2 index (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, t. 47). Dans ce petit livre, élégant par la pr…
Books on Mithras
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
The cult of Mithra as it developed in the West, its origins, its features, and its probable connection with Mithra worship in Iran
For most of the twentieth century the major problem addressed by scholarship on both Roman Mithraism and the Iranian god Mithra was the question of continuity. Did Mithra-worship migrate from Iran to the Roman Empire in some institutional form or was Mith…
Lux perpetua
Quand Cumont mourut, le 20 août 1947, il avait pu relire déjà en premières épreuves l'ensemble de ce livre, sauf le dernier chapitre et les Notes Complémentaires. Les amis qu'il avait chargés de le publier l'ont fait avec un soin pieux. Ils y ont a…
Mithraic Iconography and Ideology
CAMPBELL (L.A.) Mithraic Iconography and Ideology Leyde E.J Brill 1968 444 p. 26 figures 45 planches Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans empire romain XI) Auteur d'une Typologie de Mithra taurochtone, L.A. Campbell a entrepris de déga…
The Roman Cult of Mithras. The God and His Mysteries
The Mithras cult first became evident in Rome towards the end of the first century AD. During the next two centuries, it spread to the frontiers of the Western empire. Energetically suppressed by the early Christians, who frequently constructed their chur…
Romanising Oriental Gods Myth Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele Isis and Mithras
The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of t…
El culto de Mitra en Hispania
Jaime Alvar hace en este libro un estudio exhaustivo de las condiciones en las que se produce la introducción de Mitra en Hispania, a finales del siglo I d. C., en un momento sorprendentemente prematuro en relación con otras regiones del occidente latin…
Il Mitreo del Circo Massimo. Studio preliminare di un monumento inedito tra archeologia, conservazione e fruizione
This volume collects the first results of the extensive and articulated research project dedicated to the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus, the result of the Research Agreement stipulated in 2016 between the Capitoline Superintendence and the University of…
Arcanum
