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Mithra, ce dieu mystérieux

Maarten Jozef Vermaseren

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. En Orient, en Perse, dans l'Inde, des écrits peu explicites attest…

 
 

Books on Mithras

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

The personalities of Mithra in archaeology and literature

The personalities of Mithra in archaeology and literature

A. D. H. Bivar

Mithraism was a widespread religion under the Roman Empire. Many scholars insist the influential cult of Roman Mithraism, however shrouded its origins, was essentially a western innovation. This work approaches the question from the other side, looking fo…

La Théologie solaire du paganisme romain

La Théologie solaire du paganisme romain

Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont

Cumont Franz. La théologie solaire du paganisme romain. In: Mémoires présentés par divers savants à l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres de l'Institut de France. Première série, Sujets divers d'érudition. Tome 12, 2e partie, 1913. pp. 44…

 
The Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome

The Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome

Carel Claudius van Essen

This shrine may be the most interesting Mithraeum in the world, for it displays various remarkable features that are not to be found in any other speleum. The peculiar cult-niche with its rich stucco decoration is unique, the precious paintings on the sid…

The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity. Development, Decline and Demise ca. A.D. 270-430

The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity. Development, Decline and Demise ca. A.D. 270-430

David Walsh

In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult…

 
Les Cultes à  mystères dans l'antiquité

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, mystè…

 
The Archaeology of Mithraism. New Finds and Approaches to Mithras-Worship

The Archaeology of Mithraism. New Finds and Approaches to Mithras-Worship

Matthew M. McCarty

Over the course of the second century CE, worship of the Persianate god Mithras swept across the whole of the Roman Empire. With its distinctive traces preserved in the material record—including cave-like sanctuaries and images of Mithras stabbing a bul…

Encyclopédie des Mystiques Orientales

Encyclopédie des Mystiques Orientales

Marie-Madelaine Davy

L’Égypte ancienne, Sumériens et Hittites, Assyrie et Babylonie, Iran ancien, Hindouisme, Bouddhisme indien, Bouddhisme tibétain, Mystique de yi-King, Confucianisme, Taoïsme, le Tch'an Chinois, Viet-Nam, Shinto, Bouddhisme japonais, Zen

 
Mithraism in Ostia. Mystery Religion and Christianity in the Ancient Port of Rome

Mithraism in Ostia. Mystery Religion and Christianity in the Ancient Port of Rome

Samuel Laeuchli

Mithraism in Ostia. Mystery Religion and Christianity in the Ancient Port of Rome.

 
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