On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
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At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.
By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…
This article revisits the Mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, one of the most complete and artistically refined Mithraic sanctuaries in the Campanian region, situating it within its archaeological, iconographic, and ritual-historical contexts.
In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.
Introductio
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Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
Newsroom
The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name.
Mysteriesofmithras/sandbox
Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.
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A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.
Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico romano de la villa de Mithra, en Cabra (Córdoba), han deparado el excepcional hallazgo de un mitreo, o zona destinada al culto al dios Mithra, cuya estatua fue descubierta hace unos 70 años.
Agencia
The Mithraeum has found in a Roman building at the end of Attila Road, in Hévíz, Egregy
The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.
The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.
Aion of Oxyrhynchus
Mithraic Sol altar with backlight of Bingen
Cautes Borcovicus
Tauroctony from Vratnitsa
Goblet of Angers
Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida
Tauroctony relief from Ladenburg
Torchbearer of Porta Portese
Mithras hunting from Dura Europos
Sententia
Thanks for noticing! CC now, omnia recte ;)
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You are right, Stephen. Thank you for noticing. We have updated the information on this article.
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12 178 ROMA ROMA (Reg. IX) is part of the next entry and should be removed from here. ;-)
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Thank you for sharing it and congratulations for your beautiful and interesting work.
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Thank you! Carole is properly credited now.
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