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Depuis la première moitié du XIXe siècle et encore tout récemment, on a retrouvé dans des tombes de Grande Grèce, de Crète ou de Thessalie, des lamelles d'or, très fines, datables du IVe au IIe siècle av. J.-C.

The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.

A historical novel framed as the memoir of a Brittano-Roman soldier witnessing the end of Roman Britain. It explores identity, loyalty, and survival at the twilight of empire.

Rebecca Jelbert explores Michelangelo’s major works through the lens of hidden structures, symbolic systems, and esoteric traditions. It considers how themes associated with Mithras and other mystery cults may illuminate new interpretative possibilities within Renaissance art.

Lecture: “Mithras and the Sun God”

The Lobdengau Museum in Ladenburg is organising a public lecture on recent research into the cult image of Mithras from ancient Lopodunum (modern Ladenburg).

On Friday, 27 February 2026 at 7:00 pm, Dr Andreas Hensen will present “Mithras und der Sonnengott – Neues zum Kultbild aus Lopodunum/Ladenburg”, discussing new interpretations of the relationship between Mithras and the solar deity within the Roman religious landscape.

Venue
Domhof Hall (Domhof-Saal der Stadt Ladenburg)
Hauptstrasse 7–9
68526 Ladenburg, Germany

Admission is free.

Organiser: Lobdengau Museum Ladenburg

Vortrag "MITHRAS UND DER SONNENGOTT" | Stadt Ladenburg

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mithras But Were Afraid to Ask.

Hominibus bagis bitam.

Tradition, symbolism, and radical critique.

Moeller interprets the square as a Mithraic construction encoding cosmological, numerical, and theological structures of Roman mystery religion, rather than an early Christian cryptogram.

Sandstone base from Vetera (Xanten), Germania Inferior, with a relief of Cautes in Oriental dress holding a long burning torch.

According to Hitzinger remnants of animal bones were found in front of the relief of the Mithraeum at Rozanec.

Maarten Vermaseren, qui a publié un corpus des inscriptions et des monuments de la religion mithriaque et un certain nombre d'études savantes sur le même sujet est certainement l'un des meilleurs spécialistes de la question.

The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.

The Mithraeum of Regensburg represents the earliest of the nine Mithraic sanctuaries so far documented in Bavaria, Germany.

A study of Roman Mithraism that combines historical evidence with a symbol-centred interpretive approach, exploring Mithraic iconography, ritual experience, and the cult’s encounter with Christianity in the Late Empire.

A study that re-examines Roman Mithraism through epigraphic evidence and comparative analysis, exploring its links with Orphism, Platonism, and Iranian traditions, and presenting the cult of Mithras as a solar path of individual spiritual awakening between East and West.

A philosophical study of Iranian civilization that explores its spiritual foundations, including the legacy of Mithraic and Zoroastrian traditions, in order to reflect on Iran’s historical continuity and civilizational meaning.