Proceedings of the International Seminar on the 'Religio-Historical Character of Roman Mithraism, with Particular Reference to Roman and Ostian Sources'. Rome and Ostia 28-31 March 1978
The author of this ingenious memoir believes that the Greek myth of Orion is the very basis of Roman Mithriacism. His starting point is an astronomical interpretation of tauroctony.
David Ulansey argues that Mithraic iconography was actually an astronomical code, and that the cult began as a religious response to a startling scientific discovery.
