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The New Mithraeum Database

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Select passages illustrating Mithraism

Collection of early passages on the cult of Mithras, curated and translated by A. S. Geden.

 
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Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance

Professor Wind's acclaimed work explores pagan mysticism and neoplatonic philosophy in Renaissance art, offering insightful analyses of masterpieces by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian.

 
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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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Doliche

Dülük is a village in Şehitkamil district, a district of Gaziantep, Turkey.

 
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Pamphylia

Pamphylia was a region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus.

 
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Nemrut Dağı

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is a 2,134-metre-high mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

 
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Castrum Zerzevan

Zerzevan Castle, also known as Samachi Castle, is a ruined Eastern Roman castle, a former important military base, in Diyarbakır Province, southeastern Turkey.

 
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Caesarea

Caesarea, also known historically as Mazaca, was an ancient city in what is now Kayseri, Turkey.

 
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Trapezos

Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province.

 
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Ἀφροδισιάς

Aphrodisias was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Anatolia, Turkey.

 
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Pessinus

Pessinus was an Ancient city and archbishopric in Asia Minor, a geographical area roughly covering modern Anatolia.

 
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Baris

Baris was a town of ancient Pisidia inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times.

 
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Anazarbus

Anazarbus was an ancient Cilician city. Under the late Roman Empire, it was the capital of Cilicia Secunda.

 
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Samosata

Samsat, formerly Samosata is a small town in the Adıyaman Province of Turkey, situated on the upper Euphrates river.

 
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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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