Oxford University Press, 2017. — 240 p. — (Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology). With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium AD. Even today, this name has a...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 240 p. — (Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology). With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium AD. Even today, this name has a...
Brill, 1988. — xiv, 113 p. — (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain 109). This study opens with a "mystery" - in the modern sense of the word: why did Mithraism, in assigning the seven planets as tutelary powers to its hierarchy of grades of initiation, set them in a novel and unique order; what was the logic of that order's construction, and to...
Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. — 1984. — T. II. — Bd. 17. — Teilbd. 4. — P. 2003-2115. I. lntroduction: Cumont's achievement - scope of present survey - historical perspective and major contributions II. Survey of research on monuments and texts A. General: the effect of twentieth-century discoveries on the overall picture of the Mysteries B. Regional survey 1....
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 285 p. This volume is a study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the "mystery cults" popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. 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. He employs...
Brill, 1979. — xxvii, 1005 p., 62 pls. — (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain 80). Der römische Mithraskult ist eine Religion mit mystischem Charakter und einer Mysterienstruktur, welche auf einer sich wandelnden Gottheit basiert, die nicht als "sterbend", sondern als "invictus" zu verstehen ist, einer Gottheit, die dem Menschen eine...
Brill, 1966. — vi, 36 p., 16 pls. — (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain 8). Dans l'antiquite la cOte septentrionale de la Mer Noire a ete le point de rencontre entre les etats helMniques et le populeux monde barbare. Les colonies grecques, qui y etaient apparues, et s'etendaient en ligne discontinue, sur le littoral nord du Pont, differaient peu...
Leiden: Brill, 1968. — 540 p. — (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, Volume 11). — ISBN 978-90-04-30830-5. Illustrations. The Mithraic Cave. Four Tauroctone Assistants. The Torchbearers: Cautes and Cautopates. The Zodiac and Mithraic Orientation. The Stars and Planets, Winds and Seasons. Mithra Ephippos and Invictus. Mithra Tauroctonos. Symbols...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1992. — 335 S. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien 10). Ausgangspunkt der Untersuchung bilden die 462 Orte, in denen sich Spuren des Kultes gefunden haben ; sie bieten das Gerüst der Studie. Sind an einem Ort mehrere Mithras-Heiligtümer bekannt, werden diese gesondert behandelt Das Untersuchungsgebiet ist in 21 Regionen...
Routledge, 2001. — xxiv + 198 p. The Mithras cult first became evident in Rome towards the end of the first century AD. During the next two centuries, it spread to the frontiers of the Western empire. Energetically suppressed by the early Christians, who frequently constructed their churches over the caves in which Mithraic rituals took place, the cult was extinct by the end of...
Chicago USA: The Open Publ. Co., 1903. — 270 p. English. Mithra, also spelled Mithras, Sanskrit Mitra, in ancient Indo-Iranian mythology, the god of light, whose cult spread from India in the east to as far west as Spain, Great Britain, and Germany. (See Mithraism.) The first written mention of the Vedic Mitra dates to 1400 bc. His worship spread to Persia and, after the defeat...
Actes du Congrès Internacional, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975. — Téhéran: Bibliothèque Pahlavi; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978. — (Acta Iranica 17; Première série, Actes de congrès, v. 4). — 563 p. + 32 pl. — ISBN: 9004039023. Closca L. Baluta, Le Mithriacisme dans l'épigraphie de la Dacie Per Beslow, The Routes of early Mithraism Ugo Bianchi, Mithra and the Question of Iranian...
Lincoln, University of Nebraska, 2017. — 108 p. This thesis is a reassessment of scholarship concerning the origins of the cult mysteries of Mithraism in its Roman form during the Imperial Period. While much has been published in the debate over the cult’s true origins, we are still left without a satisfactory answer. The present work is an attempt to reconcile some of the...
Zaphon, 2019. — 303 S. — (Kasion 3). Der römische Mithras-Kult gehört zu den sog. „orientalischen Kulten“, die sich im Imperium Romanum verbreiteten. Obwohl die antike Überlieferung ihn als einen persischen Kult betrachtet und auch viele Forscher seit dem „Vater der modernen Mithras-Forschung“, Franz Cumont, von seinem iranischen Ursprung überzeugt gewesen sind, sprechen alle...
Mohr Siebeck, 2017. — 362 p. — (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 24). In this work, Attilio Mastrocinque cautions against an approach to Mithraism based on the belief that this mystic cult resembles Christianity. While both Christian and pagan authors testified that Mithraic elements were indeed borrowed, according to Attilio Mastrocinque this was only done by some...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 240 p. This book is the first full cognitive history of an ancient religious practice. In this ground-breaking study on one of the most intriguing and mysterious cults, Olympia Panagiotidou, with contributions from Roger Beck, shows how cognitive historiography can supplement our historical knowledge and deepen our understanding of past cultural...
Brill, 1974. — vi, 33 p. 7 fig., 23 pls. — (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain 42). Die Religion der Spatantike erhielt durch die Mysterien des Ostmittelmeerraumes ihr spezifisches Gepräge. In ihr rand schließlich das junge Christentum seine Form und seinen geistig-geistlichen Lebensraum. Die wichtigsten dieser hellenistischen...
Tempus Reparatum, 1996. — 128 p. — (BAR International Series 634). The decline of Mithraism in the fourth century AD is used as a case-study for understanding the end of other classes of `paganism' in the Roman western provinces. The author reviews epigraphic and numismatic evidence to date the final uses of Mithraea. He then discusses examples of wilful damage to Mithraic...
Tempus Reparatum, 1996. — 128 p. — (BAR International Series 634). The decline of Mithraism in the fourth century AD is used as a case-study for understanding the end of other classes of `paganism' in the Roman western provinces. The author reviews epigraphic and numismatic evidence to date the final uses of Mithraea. He then discusses examples of wilful damage to Mithraic...
Leiden: Brill, 1980. - (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, tome 81) - 56 p. - ISBN 90-04-06055-3 Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Bull Slaying Scene as a Series of Equatorial Constellations -- Mithras-Orion -- The Image of the Heavens and the Cult Icon -- Greek Hero -- Roman God -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.
Lund: C.W.K. Gleerup, 1951. - 205 p. Innehåll Artiklar: Stig WIkander, Études sur les mystéres de Mithras, I. Introduction - 3 Friedrich Schubel: Dichtwerk und Literaturgeschichte - 47 Alf Nyman: Vitalis Norström och hans avfall från Boströmianismen. En motivbestämning (avec résumé) - 89 Gösta Johannesson: Kring Birger Gunnersens Paltebok. Några rön beträffande Lunds ärkesätes...
Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2000. — 209 p. — ISBN 2-251-38023-X. Robert Turcan's study of the history of the Indo-Iranian deity Mithra and the Mithraic religion from pre-history to the end of the Mithraic mysteries and its legacy.
Traduzione dall'inglese di Massimiliano T. Rezza e Livio Tucci. — Roma: Edizioni Mediterranee, 2001. — 171 p. — ISBN 88-272-1389-9. Italian translation of Ulansey's book on the origins and the becoming of the Mithraic religion, titled "The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries".
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. — 158 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology. Supplementary Series 2). In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult was violently persecuted out of...
Brill, 1974. — xiv, 175 p. — (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain 41). At a time when the archaeology of Gaul is benefiting from increasingly conscientious scientific research, it may be fruitful to provide a critical re-assessment of the evidence relating to the spread of Mithraism in Gaul. The ancient literary sources are almost completely...
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