For those that are ready to wield the Herculean club, conquering inner and outer labors! Just like the Homeric Odyssey is a sacred text allegorizing the journey of the soul to Penelope, the ...
Antiochus I Theos Dikaios Epiphanes Philorhomaios Philhellen (c. 86 - 31 BC), meaning Antiochos, the just, eminent god, friend of Romans and friend of Greeks, was king of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of ...
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 ...
E. von Stern in Klio IX, 1909, 149 n. 3 gives a short notice about the discovery of a Mithraeum at Aitador in Crimea: Im Aitador, in dem Besitz S. Kaiserl. Hoheit des Grossfürsten Alexander ...
Rock-cut tauroctony forming the cult image of Mithraeum I at Doliche, later deliberately defaced by Christian iconoclasts.
Leading member of the Ostian Mithraic community, holder of the titles pater, sacerdos and antistes. Small marble base recording a donation to M. Cerellio Hieronymo, pater and sacerdos, on behalf of an ...
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 ...
This dynastic seal is traditionally attributed to Šauštatar, one of the most powerful kings of Mitanni during the fifteenth century BCE. The seal became a dynastic emblem and continued to be used by ...
Titus Atilius Glyco was a Roman citizen of Ostia, identified by his filiation and enrolment in the Palatine tribe. During the second half of the second century CE, he dedicated an earlier marble ...
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 ...
Severan governor and commander of Legio VII Gemina, associated with the religious milieu that fostered the rise of Mithraic communities in north-western Hispania. The inscription has traditionally ...
Fine ceramic cup discovered in 1994 during the excavation of the Mithraeum of Octodurus (Martigny), one of the rare Roman sanctuaries in Switzerland dedicated to the god Mithras. The vessel was ...
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