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Vir clarissimus and governor of Numidia, who dedicated a temple to Mithras with its images and ornaments in Cirta.
Governor of Numidia in 303, vir perfectissimus Valerius Florus was a well-known persecutor of Christians.
Centurio of the Legio III Augusta, Florus dedicated an altar to the unconquered Sol Mithras in El Gahra.
Born in North Africa, he dedicated an inscription to the unconquered god Mithras, found in the Forum of Lambasis.
Governor of Numidia between 284 and 285, he dedicated several monuments in Numidia to Mithras and other gods.
Aphrodisius, probably of Greek origin, must have been a slave of the Cornelii.
Actuarius and notarius, Celsianus dedicated an altar to Sol Mithras for the health of two illustrious men.
Pro praetor legate during the reign of Maxime, he dedicated an altar to Mithras in Lambaesis.
The article examines two recently discovered Mithraic representations of Cautes from Alba Iulia, focusing on a rare iconographic type showing the torchbearer with a bucranium.
Memoir by Félix Lajard analysing a Mithraic bas-relief discovered in Vienne in 1830. Based on direct examination of the fragments and their context, the study corrects an earlier misidentification and documents a rare lion-headed figure within a probable mithraeum…
In polemical passages from the late second and early third centuries, Tertullian portrays the cult of Mithras as a demonic imitation of Christian rites and provides rare early references to Mithraic initiation and ritual symbolism.
A collection of passages on Mithras from Greek and Latin literary sources.
An anonymous late-antique Christian poem, traditionally attributed to Pseudo-Paulinus of Nola (Poema 32, vv. 109–111), that ridicules pagan cults and presents Mithras, Isis, and Serapis as gods of concealment, contradiction, and unstable forms rather than light…
Late antique legendary biography of Alexander the Great (c. AD 300), where history, myth, and imperial ideology merge around figures of divine kingship and solar power.
Mithras, also called Mitra or Mithra depending on the historical period, region or language, is one of the oldest known Indo-European gods.
In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic oracles in a cave and was urged to initiate the persecution of the Christians.
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III analyses the absence of the moon in the Mithras Liturgy. He argues that this absence reflects a deliberate cosmological framework in which lunar powers linked to genesis are excluded from the ritual of ascent.
This collective volume explores the ways ancient peoples interacted with divine powers through prayer, magic, and the interpretation of the stars. Drawing on evidence from Mesopotamia to Late Antiquity, it situates these practices within broader religious and cosmological systems…
A critical edition of the Mithras Liturgy (PGM IV.475–834), providing the Greek text, English translation, commentary, and an updated discussion of its interpretation since Albrecht Dieterich’s 1903 edition.
A erotic military fantasy set against the dramatic background of Rome’s conquest of the British Isles.
