Followers of a revived version of Mithraism in contemporary Italy threaten to overthrow the government and destroy the Vatican.
Rome is in chaos. Earthquakes shake the city. The Pope is in a coma.
The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of t…
Die Mitrasreligion war eine der Formen, in denen die kosmische Frömmigkeit der Spätantike Ausdruck fand. Im Zentrum des Heiligtums stand das Relief des Mithras, der den Stier opfert. Die Kultstätten waren als Höhlen konstruiert und entsprachen der Hö…
'The book requires careful reading, because the style is tight and the plot is complex, but there can be no doubt that it is one of the most challenging, creative, and convincing monographs written on the Mithraic Mysteries.'
John R. Hinnells, Journal of…
Robert Turcan, Mithras Platonicus. Recherches sur l'hellénisation philosophique de Mithra. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1975. 24 x 15,5, xι + 145 p., 5 pi. d'illustr. h. t., 2 index (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, t. 47)…
Mithras: the Fellow in the Cap (1958) examined, with autodidactic zeal, the sun-worshipping cult, discerning the pagan roots of Christian rites with ‘disturbing conclusions about Christian orthodoxy’ (J. Wynne-Tyson, 354). (ODNB)
Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.
Holmes Publishing Group, 1993. A FINE COPY, bound in custom wraps with parchment overlay. The development of Mithraism with special attention to its relationship with Gnosticism. (Item ID: JH-209-8)