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Les Cultes à  mystères dans l'antiquité

Walter Burkert

Le livre de Walter Burkert permet de comprendre mieux ce que représentaient pour les hommes et les femmes de l’Antiquité les initiations aux mystères: mystères d'Eleusis, mystères dionysiaques, mystères de la Grande Mère, mystères d'Isis, mystères de Mithra, et tant d'autres. S'il réu…

 
 

Books on Mithras

A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.

Les Lamelles d'or orphiques

Les Lamelles d'or orphiques

Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli

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., qui contiennent des instructions d…

Il Mitreo del Circo Massimo. Studio preliminare di un monumento inedito tra archeologia, conservazione e fruizione

Il Mitreo del Circo Massimo. Studio preliminare di un monumento inedito tra archeologia, conservazione e fruizione

Emanuela Murgia

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…

 
Mithras-Orion. Greek Hero and Roman Army God

Mithras-Orion. Greek Hero and Roman Army God

M. P. Spiedel

'...breaks new ground in the fields of Greek and Roman religion and Roman army studies.' —Bibliographie zur Symbolik, Ikonographie und Mythologie, 15, 1982. 'This brief study makes some genuine contributions...' —Robert A. Wild, S.J., The


 
The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries. Cosmology & Salvation in the Ancient World

The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries. Cosmology & Salvation in the Ancient World

David Ulansey

In the centuries following the conquests of Alexander the Great the dramatic unification of the Mediterranean world created exceptionally fertile soil for the growth of new religions. Christianity, for example, was one of the innovative religious movement…

Los cultos de Mater Magna y Atis en Hispania

Los cultos de Mater Magna y Atis en Hispania

Jaime Alvar Ezquerra

Este libro es la tercera entrega de una trilogía dedicada al estudio de la implantación en la Península Ibérica de los cultos destinados a dioses que, procedentes originalmente de Oriente, se transforman profundamente en su recepción en Roma y termin…

 
Mithraic Iconography and Ideology

Mithraic Iconography and Ideology

Leroy A. Campbell

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…

 
Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces. Space Sacralisation and Religious Communication during the Principate (1st–3rd century AD)

Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces. Space Sacralisation and Religious Communication during the Principate (1st–3rd century AD)

Csaba Szabó

The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where t…

Phallic Miscellanies. Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India

Phallic Miscellanies. Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India

Anónimo

India, beyond all other countries on the face of the earth, is pre-eminently the home of the worship of the Phallus—the Linga puja; it has been so for ages and remains so still. This adoration is said to one of the chief, if not the leading dogma of the…

 
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