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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 destinées à guider, au cours de son voyage d…

 
 

Books on Mithras

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

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…

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…

 
Les Métamorphoses ou l'âne d'or

Les Métamorphoses ou l'âne d'or

Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis

Jubilant dans le baroque aux confins de l'érotisme, du fantastique et de la mort, Les Métamorphoses d’Apulée (IIe siècle), seul roman latin dont nous possédions le texte intégral, racontent à la première personne les tribulations d’un naïf tr…

 
 
 
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…

Porphyry's On the Cave of the Nymphs in its Intellectual Context

Porphyry's On the Cave of the Nymphs in its Intellectual Context

Nilufer Akcay

Neoplatonic allegorical interpretation expounds how literary texts present philosophical ideas in an enigmatic and coded form, offering an alternative path to the divine truths. The Neoplatonist Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs is one of the most si…

 
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