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In these two key passages, Justin Martyr interprets Mithraic rituals and myths as demonic parodies of Christ’s incarnation, the Eucharist, and biblical revelation.
Anazarbus was an ancient Cilician city. Under the late Roman Empire, it was the capital of Cilicia Secunda.
Governor of Numidia in 303, vir perfectissimus Valerius Florus was a well-known persecutor of Christians.
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 Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.
