The New Mithraeum Database

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 symbol

A venerable scholar of Mithraism, Beck assembles 17 reprinted and original articles from the past three decades that underpin the project to comprehend and describe the Mithraic mysteries more effectively than the traditional methods for studying the cult

For most of the twentieth century the major problem addressed by scholarship on both Roman Mithraism and the Iranian god Mithra was the question of continuity. Did Mithra-worship migrate from Iran to the Roman Empire in some institutional form or was Mith

'The book requires careful reading, because the style is tight and the plot is complex, but there can be no doubt that it is one of the most challenging, creative, and convincing monographs written on the Mithraic Mysteries.' John R. Hinnells, Journal of