Araxes is a river in Armenia, so called from Araxus the son of Pylus. For he, contending with his grandfather Arbelus for the empire, shot him with an arrow. For which being haunted by the Furies, he ...

Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical ...

Persis: daughter of Perses, or something older One of Hekate’s most consistent epithets across the ancient sources is ...

Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome. M[atri] d[eum] m[agnae] I[deae] / et Attidi meno/tyranno conser/vatoribus suis Cae/lius ...

Interactive map highlighting most of the Mithras shrines, featuring descriptions and links to further information.

Relief in grey limestone (H. 0.59 Br. 0.825 D. 0.10) from the Repovic mountains. It is sculptured on two sides and it was found near A. Sarajevo, Archaeological Museum. Probably 4th cent. A.D. 1) ...

According to Ernst Renan, the renowned 19th-century historian of religion and philologist, if the Roman world had not become Christian, it would be Mithraic today. This controversial premise also ...

Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense ...

Hermae of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana 683 217 Graffito of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana 684 218 ...

The first documented mentions of the Mithraic cult in Europe, with allusions to Eastern-named gods, profuse and unmistakable iconography, and dark, subterranean temples, appear from the end of the 1st ...

On the relief the front of a temple is represented: two columns with capitals, supporting a tympanum. Between the columns a representation of Mithras' rockbirth. In his l.h. the youthful, naked god ...

White marble relief (H. 1.15 Br. 0.35). Galleria degli Uffizi. On a restored base a standing Aion with lion's head. His body is entwined by six windings of a serpent, which lays its head on that of ...