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Let’s talk about Mithras with Yolanda De Iuliis

Yolanda’s multimedia dissertation focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that motivate Mithras worshippers. Her work includes a podcast entitled Conversations about Mithras.

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Press clips

  • Life around the world’s largest Mithras temple revealed at Doliche

    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

    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

  • The Mirror of Mithras

    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.

    P Sufenas Virius Lupus

  • A new mithraeum discovered during excavation in Trier

    A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

  • Hallan en el yacimiento romano de Cabra (Córdoba) un lugar de culto al dios Mithra

    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

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Some places to visit

  • Mithraeum of Heviz

    The Mithraeum has found in a Roman building at the end of Attila Road, in Hévíz, Egregy

     
  • Mithréum des Bolards

    The Mithraeum des Bolards was integrated into a therapeutic cultural complex related to healing waters.

     
  • Mithraeum I of Stockstadt

    The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.

     
  • Mithraeum of Jajce

    The remains of the Jajački Mithraeum were discovered accidentally during excavation for the construction of a private house in 1931.

     

Sententia

Guest insights

Pattie L

Anyone know what museum this piece lives in?

on Cautopates from Jajce

 

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Mmmm… do you mean this one?

on CIMRM 893

 

Pattie L

So... you *were* an owner, like me, prior to being hacked. Why don’t you start another group?…

on Pattie

 

Milo Fascino

y aquí otro

on a post

 

Yannick Schmidt

Consider that there is a two-sided cult relief found at Mithraeum I of Stockstadt (CIMRM 1162)…

on Mithraeum I of Stockstadt

 

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It will indeed be helpful to have up-to-date information from anyone who has just visited a temple…

on Tauroctony from Santa Maria Capua Vetere

 

Dominique PERSOONS

I see the Platonic Chiasmus on this fresco from Pompei. I think Mithras and Sol Apollo have nothing to see with earth…

on Cautes from Les Bolards

 

Antonio Moreno Rosa

The sculpture was found, according to its discoverer, next to the western wall that delimits the impluvium…

on Mitra de Cabra

 

Mithraeum.eu

Indeed, Stephen. The catalogue is highly recommendable for all audiences, academic, professional and the simply curious…

on Mariemont unveils
(some of) the Mysteries of Mithras

 
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