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The New Mithraeum Database

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

Your search Philippe Roy gave 179 results.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from La Bâtie-Montsaléon

This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.

 
Notitia

A Man of the Gods and Mysteries. On Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.

 
Notitia

The Golden Chain of Initiation: Orphism, Eleusis, and Mystagogy—A Reinterpretation

By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.

 
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Genuflect

A dark occult novel intertwining Templar mythology, ritual magic, and modern conspiracy, with Mithraic and gnostic motifs woven into its esoteric narrative. It explores the persistence of hidden initiatory currents in the contemporary world.

 
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Les Cultes à mystères dans l’Empire romain. Païens et Chrétiens en compétition

Francesco Massa examines how the concept of mysteria was transformed in the Roman Empire, as Christian authors from the mid-second century CE adopted the language of mysteries to articulate their own rituals and beliefs, reshaping understandings of both Christian and traditional cults…

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Dormagen

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.

 
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

Mithraeum I of Stockstadt

The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.

 
Textum

Hieronymus’ letter to Laeta

In Letter 107 to Laeta, Jerome combines a pastoral reflection on conversion with an account of the urban prefect Gracchus, who ordered the destruction of a Mithraic cave in Rome, listing the seven grades of initiation associated with the cult.

 
Monumentum

Inscription of Olympus to his grandfather

This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 1665

Sandstone relief of Mithras killing the bull, broken in two parts and partly restored, with dog, serpent and scorpion preserved; formerly in Vienna, now on loan to the Museum Carnuntinum.

 
Locus

Bodobrica

Vicus Baudobriga was a Roman settlement on the left bank of the Rhine, founded during the conquest of Gaul. Its development reflects the Rhine’s shifting role as frontier, trade route, and fortified border before Roman withdrawal.

 
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La Porte de Mithra. Aux origines de l'Alévisme

Kerivel explore voie mystique des Alévis que, selon lui, trouve son origine dans la très ancienne religiosité des peuples iraniens et sur les structures et les rituels du culte de Mithra.

 
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Recherches mithriaques. Quarante ans de questions et d'investigations

Le présent volume les réunit en les assortissant de deux contributions inédites sur l’échelle mithriaque et sur le dieu au serpent des stèles danubiennes.

 
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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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The Mystery of Mithras. Exploring the heart of a Roman cult

This catalogue proposes, thanks to the contributions of some 75 international experts, a new synthesis for a complex and fascinating cult that reflects the remarkable advances in our knowledge in recent decades.

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