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…
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
Symbols of Transformation is one of Jung’s major works. Originally published in 1912, it was extensively revised and expanded in the 1952 edition to incorporate Jung’s later mature understanding of the psyche. This work, in its first edition, heralded…
The following is the opinion of the great majority of learned men. By some it is maintained that there are two gods, rivals as it were, authors the one of good and the other of evil. Others confine the name of god to the good power, the other they term de…
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…
Why did the Romans worship a Persian god? This book presents a new reading of the Mithraic iconography taking into account that the cult had a prophecy. It is likely that the Mithraic reliefs alluded to it and the scenes in the upper panels depict the Gol…
Hermès Trismégiste est un auteur imaginaire. Son existence est insoutenable, ses œuvres apocryphes, leur rédacteur inconnu. Et pourtant, résistant à toutes les critiques, il a connu plusieurs renaissances. Aujourd’hui les spécialistes y trouvent …
Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna, essai sur deux représentations indo-européennes de la souveraineté (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, Sciences religieuses, LVIe vol.). Paris, Leroux, 1940 ; 1 vol. in-8°, xn + 150 pages. Dans ce nouvea…
Un descendant de Bédouins fixés à Emèse, en Syrie, passe pour le fils adultérin d'un empereur assassiné. Il sert passionnément le culte d'un aérolithe qui passe pour figurer le soleil : Elagabal. Il continuerait volontiers à danser devant l'idole…
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart’s first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues…
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