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Hello everybody. Does anyone know the opening hours of San Clemente in Rome? I went last week with a friend and it was closed

It is indeed surprising to see Mithras represented in the Middle Ages, as we tend to assume that paganism was forgotten at an early date. Well, some representations of Mithras killing the bull in key locations in Europe prove the opposite. To what extent did medieval masons know about the cult of Mithras? Here are the best known examples: * Tauroctony of Monreale * Tauroctony of Santo Domingo de Silos * Tauroctony of Aula Gotica

For the health of this man, a small altar was dedicated to the god Invictus in the Emerita Augusta.

Slave and bailiff of Tiberius Claudius Livianus.

Summary of Mithraic philosophy on a drawing of an ornate temple. It is possible to draw the organisation of a Mithraeum, and also his philosophical consequences. For example, the two columns were probably very different: the south column was 'human'. the winter column. Reincarnated souls appeared there, And further, pure and philosophical souls left through the gate of Capricorn. The northern column was summer time. Pure souls entered the world of the gods, and imperfect souls were rejected by the Moon and passed through the door of Cancer to be reincarnated (metempsychosis), after a six-month journey that became darker and darker.

Professor Wind's acclaimed work explores pagan mysticism and neoplatonic philosophy in Renaissance art, offering insightful analyses of masterpieces by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian.

Textile merchant from Augusta Treverorum and Pater of his community, he left testimony of his cult to Mithras in the 3rd century.

Nam cum coeperis deae servire, tunc magis senties fructum tuae libertatis.

Soldier of Legio XIII Gemina and strator consularis who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mithras.

Found in Illmitz, Austria, in 1959, this altar was dedicated to the unconquered god Mithras by a certain Aelius Valerianus.

This is the second altar found in Ceanu Mic to date, dedicated to an Invictus being.

This limestone altar to Sol Invictus Mithra was found at Turda in 1905.

Interested in Mithras since 1990.

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta ’by means of a divine vision’, something unusual in Hispania.

Greek-speaking member of the community of Mithras followers from Apulum in the 2nd century.

We are delighted to announce that the dates for MithraCon 2025 have been set for the last weekend in April, from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th. Mithracon is an informal research convention for people interested in the study of the god Mithras, whose popularity peaked among the Roman legions around 100-400 AD. Highlights of the convention include the opportunity to conduct research in Yale’s world-class libraries and to visit the Yale University Art Gallery, which houses the Dura Europos Mithraeum. For full details, visit https://www.mithracon.org.

Gaius dedicated an altar to the god Invictus in Emerita Augusta in the 2nd century.

A slave of a certain Tiberius, he likely dedicated an altar to the invincible god Mithras in Carnuntum.

Neapolitan senator who dedicated a tauroctonic relief to Mithras tauroctonus to the Almighty God Mithras.

academic researcher and documentarist