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The Seventh Sinner

Jean Suttman’s study trip in Rome turns nightmarish when she discovers a murdered student in the Temple of Mithra and realizes someone is out to harm her.

 
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Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras

The Secret Cult of Saturn in Imperial Rome.

 
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Mithras, de geheimzinnige god

De oorspronkelijke Nederlandse uitgave van 1959 introduceerde het werk van Vermaseren, dat als klassiek geldt in de populaire studie van het mithraïsme en dat de belangstelling voor deze cultus blijvend heeft gevormd.

 
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Le feu de Mithra. Une enquête du centurion

A Roman centurion investigates a ritual murder and a deadly new weapon, the Fire of Mithras, from the alleys of Lutetia to the battle of Argentoratum.

 
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Le culte de Mithra en Afrique du Nord antique. Etude épigraphique et archéologique.

Cet ouvrage propose une étude d’ensemble du culte de Mithra en Afrique romaine. S’appuyant sur un rigoureux examen croisé des sources épigraphiques, archéologiques et littéraires, il restitue l’histoire et les spécificités de ce culte à mystères sur le sol africain…

 
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Mithras. Typengeschichtliche Untersuchungen

Fritz Saxl interprets Mithraism primarily through its images, proposing the cult as a visual cosmology structured around the descent, sacrifice and re-ascent of light, developed in close dialogue with Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky.

 
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Nicopolis ad Istrum

Nicopolis ad Istrum or Nicopolis ad Iatrum was a Roman and Early Byzantine town. Its ruins are located at the village of Nikyup, 20 km north of Veliko Tarnovo in northern Bulgaria. The site was placed on the Tentative List for consideration as a Wor

 
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Serdica

Serdika or Serdica is the historical Roman name of Sofia, now the capital of Bulgaria. Currently, Serdika is the name of a district located in the city.

 
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Philippopolis

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, standing on the banks of the Maritsa river in the historical region of Thrace, behind the state capital Sofia.

 
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Ulpia Oescus

Oescus, Palatiolon or Palatiolum was an important ancient city on the Danube river in Roman Moesia.

 
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Kreta

 
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Storgosia

Storgosia was a Roman road station and later a fortress, located in the modern Kaylaka Park in the vicinity of modern Pleven (North-central Bulgaria). Pleven is today the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria.

 
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#363

I am honored to present my first book devoted to the cult of Mithras in ancient North Africa. Structured into four main sections, it also features a catalogue of twenty inscriptions and twenty-six illustrative plates…

 
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Mithras in Africa

In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.

 
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Mithra en Afrique

Interview avec Fahim Ennouhi à l’occasion de la publication de son premier livre, Le culte de Mithra en Afrique du Nord antique, consacré à cette présence restée élitiste et marginale dans cette région de l’Empire.

 
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The Mystery Cult of Mithras by Peter Mark Adams & Andreu Abuín

Acclaimed esoteric scholar @peter.mark.adams talks about his latest book, ‘Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’, interviewed by professor, writer and host of The New Mithraeum podcast @andreu.abuin.

 
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Mithraeum of Sofia

The Mithraeum of Serdica was found in the fortified area of the ancient city of Serdica, now Sofia, Bulgaria.

 
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#360

Is there a new date for our next gathering??

 
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