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En suivant les traces de Mithra, le Musée royal de Mariemont vous plonge dans l’un des cultes les plus mystérieux et fascinants de l’Antiquité romaine.

Raconter la légende de Mithra, le jeune dieu désigné par Jupiter pour sauver la Terre de la sécheresse et l’Univers du chaos, jamais personne n’avait encore osé le faire ! Pour la toute première fois, deux des acteurs principaux de cette extraor...

VIIIe siècle après Jésus-Christ : le culte de Mithra est devenu la religion officielle de l’Empire romain, et les autres cultes, dont celui de la petite secte chrétienne, sont férocement réprimés.

Dans un monde rempli d’une multitude de dieux, Mithra, que l’on dit venir de Perse, rencontra dès la fin du Ier siècle de notre ère un succès fulgurant qui perdura plus de 300 ans d’un bout à l’autre de l’Empire romain et attira des dizaine...

Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Royal Museum of Mariemont (Belgium)

Research fields
– Archaeology of the Oriental cults in the Roman Empire
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On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.

Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.

Egyptologist with interest in the religion of Roman Egypt.

Video of the Comune di Marino on the Mithraeum of Marino

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’

Presentation on the Dionysian-themed frescoes of the Villa of the Mysteries by Peter Mark Adams on the occasion of the presentation of his book.

Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison.

The Dionysian themed frescos of Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries constitute the single most important theurgical narrative to have survived in the Western esoteric tradition.

Film in German describing the Mithras relief from Dieburg as part of the design and staging of the Mithraeum in Museum Schloss Fechenbach, Dieburg.

Video report in Hungarian by the Aquincum Museum on the Mithraic discoveries in the region.

Video report in Spanish on Mithraism.

The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.