The Roman Cult of Mithras. The God and His Mysteries
The Mithras cult first became evident in Rome towards the end of the first century AD. During the next two centuries, it spread to the frontiers of the Western empire. Energetically suppressed by the early Christians, who frequently constructed their churches over the caves in which Mithraic rituals
Books on Mithras
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
The cult of Mithra as it developed in the West, its origins, its features, and its probable connection with Mithra worship in Iran
For most of the twentieth century the major problem addressed by scholarship on both Roman Mithraism and the Iranian god Mithra was the question of continuity. Did Mithra-worship migrate from Iran to the Roman Empire in some institutional form or was Mith…
Mystai. Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos
The Dionysian themed frescos of Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries constitute the single most important theurgical narrative to have survived in the Western esoteric tradition. No other practitioner account of the ritual process for conducting a mystery r…
Religions solaires et culte initiatique de Mithra
Nous voudrions rendre un hommage particulier à deux chercheurs : Franz Cumont (décédé) et Martin Vermaseren, pour leur oeuvre sur les monuments mithriatiques. De Cumont, nous avons deux ouvrages essentiels : Textes et monuments figurés relatifs a…
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…
Los cultos de Mater Magna y Atis en Hispania
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…
Études Mithriaques. Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975
Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975. (Actes du Congrès, 4). Éditions Brill, collection. Acta Iranica. TABLE DES MATIERES
- Closca L. BALUTA Le Mithriacisme dans l'epigraphie de la Dacie
- Per BESKOW The Routes
Legion of Lust
Young Roman soldier Titus is stationed in Britain just after Boadicea's rebellion, where he belongs to the mysterious and erotic Mithras cult. The sect's rites grow more and more extreme, until Titus realises that he may be required to betray his secret l…
Arcanum
