The New Mithraeum Database

In Plutarch’s Life of Alexander, the grieving Darius binds the eunuch Tireus by the light of Mithras to reveal the truth about his captive wife Statira, a solemn appeal that leads to unexpected praise for Alexander’s honor and restraint.

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

Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning the doctrines and practices of the magi.

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

Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son.

Syntrofus, whose Greek cognomen means companion, is part of a modest Mithraic community in Apulum.

Vir clarissimus and governor of Numidia, who dedicated a temple to Mithras with its images and ornaments in Cirta.

During the first semester of his sophomore year at Crozer, King composed a paper for Enslin’s course on Greek religion, focusing on Mithraism.

Veteran and ex duplicarius of ala I civum Romanorum who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Teutoburgium.

Priest of Mithras who dedicated an altar to Petra Genetrix in Carnuntum.

Prefect, probably of Cohors II Tungrorum, who dedicated an altar to the invincible sun god Mithras in Camboglanna, Britannia.

Pater patrorum of equestrian rank, he was a prominent figure in the Mithraic sphere in Rome.

Freedman from Greek-speaking origin who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.

Freedman and administrator of the country estate of a certain Flavius Macedo in Moesia.

Freedman, he offered a relief of Mithras as a bull killer for the well-being of his two former masters in Apulum.

Tribune of the first cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum with his fellows in Brementium.

Firmidius Severinus was a soldier who served in the Legio VIII Augusta for 26 years.

In this article, Chalupa examines the scant evidence that has been found for the presence of women in the Roman cult of Mithras.

PhD Thesis by Vittoria Canciani, coordinated by A. Mastrocinque. Verona, 14th April 2022.