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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

Your search Jean Varenne gave 37 results.

 
Monumentum

Mithréum d’Angers

The Mithraeum of Angers, excavated during a preventive operation and subsequently dismantled in 2010, yielded numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps, and a ceramic vessel bearing a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 2196 & 2197

White marble relief depicting Mithras as bull-slayer in a grotto from the Froehner collection, now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.

 
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Los cultos de Mater Magna y Atis en Hispania

Tercera entrega de la trilogía de Jaime Alvar dedicada al estudio de los cultos a dioses procedentes de Oriente en la Península Ibérica.

 
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Études Mithriaques. Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975

Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975. (Actes du Congrès, 4). Éditions Brill, collection. Acta Iranica.

 
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The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire. Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun

Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.

 
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Mithras platonicus. Recherches sur l'hellénisation philosophique de Mithra

Robert Turcan highlights various examples of the philosophical interpretation, mainly Platonic, of the figure and cult of Mithras.

 
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Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

 
Monumentum

Inscription of Secundinus of Lyon

There is no consensus on the authenticity of this monument erected by a certain Secundinus in Lugdunum, Gallia.

 
Notitia

The MITHRA Project

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

 
Monumentum

Inscription of Chyndonax

This inscription on an antique funeral urn mentions a certain high priest of Mithras.

 
Monumentum

Mithréum de Mackwiller

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

 
Monumentum

Head of Mithras of Mackwiller

This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.

 
Video

Du Capitole au Louvre-Lens - itinérance moderne d'un relief mithriaque

Intervention de Richard Veymiers, directeur du Musée royal de Mariemont et Laurent Bricault, de l'Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.

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