The Mystery of Mithras. Exploring the heart of a Roman cult
The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the Heart of a Roman Cult is being presented at the Musée royal de Mariemont from 20 November 2021 to 17 April 2022, then at the Musée Saint-Raymond de Toulouse from 14 May 2022 to 30 October 2022, and lastly at the Archäologisches Museum Fra
Books on Mithras
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
A Presocratics Reader. Selected fragments and testimonia. Second edition
Building on the virtues that made the first edition of A Presocratics Reader the most widely used sourcebook for the study of the Presocratics and Sophists, the second edition offers even more value and a wider selection of fragments from these philosophi…
Il Mitreo del Circo Massimo. Studio preliminare di un monumento inedito tra archeologia, conservazione e fruizione
This volume collects the first results of the extensive and articulated research project dedicated to the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus, the result of the Research Agreement stipulated in 2016 between the Capitoline Superintendence and the University of…
Les Dieux des Indo-européens
Georges Dumézil, Les dieux des Indo-Européens. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1952. 1 vol. in-8°, 145 pp. (Mythes et Religions. Vol. 29). Prix : 300 frs fr. M. Dumézil publie ici le texte de quatre conférences faites à en 1951, ce qui…
Mithraic Iconography and Ideology
CAMPBELL (L.A.) Mithraic Iconography and Ideology Leyde E.J Brill 1968 444 p. 26 figures 45 planches Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans empire romain XI) Auteur d'une Typologie de Mithra taurochtone, L.A. Campbell a entrepris de déga…
Romanising Oriental Gods Myth Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele Isis and Mithras
The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of t…
Mithras: Mysteries and Initiation Rediscovered
Known as Mitra to the Indians, Mithra and Zarathustra (Zoroaster in Greek) to the Iranians, and Mithras to the Romans, this is the oldest of all living deities. Mithras was recognized as the greatest rival of Christianity, a greater threat even than the r…
La via della realizzazione di Sé secondo i misteri di Mithra
«Mithra non volse nell’antichità come una divinità astratta, ma come un Dio misterico e, simultaneamente, come un ‘fautore dell’impero’, fautor imperii. Esso veniva presentato… come il simbolo di una determinata realtà interiore… che si do…
El culto de Mitra en Hispania
La religión de la Hispania romana no ha sido un campo suficientemente trabajado. Al margen de algunos estudios aislados, que por numerosos que sean siempre resultarán escasos, tan sólo en una ocasión se han dado cita los especialistas para tratar de a…
The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire. Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun
A study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the 'mystery cults' popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbol…
The Phallic Worship. A History of Sex and Sex Rites in relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day
In The Phallic Worship, George Ryley Scott explores the significant role that male sexual organs, practices, and rites have played in various traditions throughout history and into the present day. His book presents a comprehensive study of phallic worshi…
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