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.
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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.
Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.
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Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
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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.
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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.
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An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.
The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.
Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.
The Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla is one of the largest temples dedicated to Mithras ever found in Rome.
Inscription of Lucius Sempronius
Mithraic relief of Baden bei Wien
Oceaunus of Mérida
Tauroctony from the Loggia Scoperta
Cautes of Sisak
Altar by Hector Corneliorum of Mérida
Inscription on the base of a statue from Stabiae
Altar of Aelius Valerianus from Illmitz
Tauroctony sculpture of Villa Borghese
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https://www.mithraeum.eu/group/anglo.mithraic.society
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I am interested in this as my 87 year old friend grew up in Burham and remembers a track she used…
Thanks. That helped.
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I am researching the Latin inscription dedicated by Callimorphus to Mithras (EDCS-27800570 / CIL III 12135)…
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I appreciate this article as it spawned and actual (gasp!) conversation on the facebook group…
That’s a good excuse to open a discord server ;)
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You’re doing a remarkable job (… and you’re the main reason I even venture onto fb 😉)
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Great. It's similar to the Mithraic temple in Maragheh, Iran. According to this photos…
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