In Vergil’s Aeneid, the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world, particular…
Dans le monde gréco-romain, Mithra n'est pas un dieu parmi les autres, ni comme les autres. Venu d'ailleurs avec un lointain héritage indo-européen, il n'est pas lié à tel ou tel sanctuaire topique. On l'honore partout où un groupe de fidèles renou…
A venerable scholar of Mithraism, Beck assembles 17 reprinted and original articles from the past three decades that underpin the project to comprehend and describe the Mithraic mysteries more effectively than the traditional methods for studying the cult…
For most of the twentieth century the major problem addressed by scholarship on both Roman Mithraism and the Iranian god Mithra was the question of continuity. Did Mithra-worship migrate from Iran to the Roman Empire in some institutional form or was Mith…
The fraternal order that focussed on the worship of the ancient Iranian god Mithra was probably formed in Iran, Armenia, and Pontus (the southern coastal region of the Black Sea in eastern Anatolia, present-day Turkey). Travelers and colonists from theseS…
Second volume of Vermaseren's series Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, Mithriaca, dedicated to a small Mithraic sanctuary on the island of Ponza in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca Tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.