Evidence from Campania reflects the circulation of Mithraic cults through ports, prosperous cities and elite villa landscapes surrounding the Bay of Naples. Puteoli, Capua and neighbouring urban centres formed part of one of the most interconnected regions of the Roman Mediterranean.
Places in Campania
Cales
Cales was an ancient city of Campania, in today's comune of Calvi Risorta in southern Italy, belonging originally to the Aurunci/Ausoni, on the Via Latina.
Capua
Capua is currently a city and comune in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, situated 25 km north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain.
Pausilypon
Posillipo is an affluent residential quarter of Naples, southern Italy, located along the northern coast of the Gulf of Naples.
Pausilypum
Pausilypum, modern Posillipo, overlooked the Bay of Naples and became renowned for its elite villas and coastal setting.
Puteoli
Puteoli, the great commercial harbour of Roman Italy, preserves evidence of the cosmopolitan maritime environments through which Mithraic cults circulated across the Mediterranean world.
