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The many lives of Mithras

We speak with Israel Campos Méndez about questions that continue to divide scholars: what links the Indo-Iranian Mithra to the deity worshipped in the Roman Empire, and what do we really know about the origins of Roman Mithraism?

Andreu Abuín
Andreu Abuín

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Some places to visit

  • Mithraeum of Inveresk

    The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.

     
  • Temple of Garni

    After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.

     
  • Mitreo d’Aosta

    The remains of the Mithraeum of Aosta, also known as the Mitreo di Augusta Praetoria, were discovered in 1953 in insula 59, in a commercial district of the ancient city.

     
  • Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

    A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.

     

Sententia

Guest insights

Mateusz Zalewski

Dear Dominique, interesting observation. However, the placement of Selene (Luna) in this Mithraeum…

on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026

 
 

The New Mithraeum

Salve Pattie, In case you missed it, there is also a page on the mithraeum itself: https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/39…

on Tauroctonia del Mitreo de Duino

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Vae tibi, qui sapientiam Magistri ignoras! Vere, ingenium Platonis in transpositione Babyloniorum…

on a post

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Here, does the bas-relief come from Ptuj, or from Frankfurt-Heddernheim?

on a post

 

The New Mithraeum

;) and what about the armour!

on a post

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Of course, Mithraism is a doctrine based on Chiasma, like Christianity and Platonism.

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

Andreu Abuín

Oceanus appears several times in Mithraic iconography. In some cases, though it is unclear whether it is Oceanus or Saturn…

on Mitreo di Santa Prisca

 
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