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Life of Pompey

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.

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Jenniffer Coolige

I love villagers with huge heads!

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De Iside et Osiride

Of Isis and Osiris or Of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, Plutarch, The Moralia.

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Thebaid

The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.

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Gaius Camilius Superatus

Gaius dedicated an altar to the god Invictus in Emerita Augusta in the 2nd century.

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Thrasyllus of Mendes

Thrasyllus was an Egyptian of Greek descent grammarian, astrologer and a friend of the Roman emperor Tiberius.

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Iουλιανος

Soldier of the Legio XVI Flavia Firma Antoniana stationed at Dura Europos.

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Iustus

Solder of the Legio II Augusta who dedicated a monument to Mithras Invictus in Isca.

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Proficentius

Pater sacrorum and founder of the Mithraeum under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo.

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Corbulo

Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.

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Victorinus

Slave of the imperial family and dispensator who repaired an image of Mithras in Tibur, near Rome.

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Tiberius Claudius Thermodon

Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.

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Iron sword and crown of Güglingen

Several iron fragments found in the second mithraeum of Güglingen may have been used during mithraic ceremonies.

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Relief of Aion-Phanes

The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.

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Cerro de San Albín

Although the site at Cerro de San Albín is not a Mithraeum, archaeologists have found several monuments related to the cult of Mithras.

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Mithraeum of Ša‘āra

The Mithraeum of Saara, Syria, has been identified through the deciphering of the remains of the iconographic programme on its arch.

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Niasar Cave

The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.

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Mithras-Men from Rome

Relief possibly depicting Mithras-Men holding a torch and a a bust of Luna on a crescent.

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Mitreo di Angera

The existence of a mithraeum in the "tana del lupo", a natural cave in the castle of Angera, has been assumed since the 19th century, following the discovery of two mithraic inscriptions in the town.

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