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.
Notitiae
News and articles from Mithraeum.eu
Mapping Roman sanctuaries in the Danubian provinces
The Digital Atlas of Roman Sanctuaries in the Danubian Provinces (DAS) is the first comprehensive digital and open access representation of sacralised spaces founded and maintained during the Principate in the territory of the Danubian provinces.
Mithras in India and Iran
We propose to revisit a passage by the prolific author Marteen Vermaseren that highlights correspondences today forgotten between the Roman Mithras and its Eastern counterparts.
Mariemont unveils
(some of) the Mysteries of MithrasThe exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.
The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the heart of a Roman cult
Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.
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Press clips
Call for PhD students and post-doctoral fellows specialising in Mithras
On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.
Before MAGA: Mithras, Phrygian Caps, and the Politics of Headwear
Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.
Sarah E. Bond
Los dioses de Egipto y Persia que los romanos honraron en Lucus Augusti
La Domus de Mitreo y el Centro Arqueolóxico de San Roque muestran otra cara del viejo Lugo
Lorena García Calvo
Dolores Dopico: «Vamos a exponer los huesos de los animales del ritual del mitreo de Lugo»
La directora de la Domus do Mitreo anuncia que habrá una reforma del museo, que incluye una nueva pieza de epigrafía del yacimiento
Suso Varela
Raised by Wolves: Mithraism and Sol Explained
HBO Max's sci-fi series Raised By Wolves features a religious faction that references Sol and the Mithraic Mysteries. Here are the real-world Roman concepts the show borrowed from.
Juliette Harrisson
Some places to visit
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Mitreo di Fructosus
The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.
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Mithraeum of Aquincum II in Victorinus's house
The temple of Mithras in Aquincum was located within the private house of the decurio Marcus Antonius Victorinus.
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Mithraeum de Martigny
The Mithraeum of Martigny is the first temple devoted to Mithras found in Switzerland.
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Mithraeum of Inveresk
The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
