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researcher on Mithraism for over 20 years,
author of the book "Mithras. Geschichte einer Gottheit"
Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.
Archéologue et historien de l’art belge, professeur à l’université de Liège, et directeur du Domaine & Musée royal de Mariemont.
Nam cum coeperis deae servire, tunc magis senties fructum tuae libertatis.
Thinking of forming a weekly group for those in the Anglosphere(USA, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ) to have a webcam call, discuss all things related to Mithras and form friends sharing a niche interest:)
University Student living in the Greater Toronto area. For any questions about the Anglo-Mithraic Society feel free to directly message me.
Richard Gordon suggests the object on the Miles step is a bull’s hindquarter.
“In the light of the sacrificial scene on the altar of Flavius Aper (Poetovio), the interpretation as a bull’s hind-quarter rather than shoulder is to be preferred. The scene at Ostia is perfectly in keeping with other evidence suggest- ing that (junior) Mithraic grades fulfilled specific manual tasks within the cult, in the case of Miles, butchery of sacrificial animals.”
See:
Gordon, R. 2013c. “The Miles-frame in the Mitreo di Felicissimo and the practicalities of sacrifice.” Religio: Revue Pro Religionistiku 21, no.1: 33–38.
A.B. Candidate in Departments of History and Classics at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
Professeur d’histoire romaine à l’Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.
Community dedicated to the study, disclosure and reenactment of the Mysteries of Mithras since 2004.
Professor in New Testament and Early Christian Studies at the University of South Africa.