A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.

The article examines two recently discovered Mithraic representations of Cautes from Alba Iulia, focusing on a rare iconographic type showing the torchbearer with a bucranium.

In polemical passages from the late second and early third centuries, Tertullian portrays the cult of Mithras as a demonic ...

An anonymous late-antique Christian poem, traditionally attributed to Pseudo-Paulinus of Nola (Poema 32, vv. 109–111), that ...

Late antique legendary biography of Alexander the Great (c. AD 300), where history, myth, and imperial ideology merge around ...

In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic ...

Inscription fixed into a wall beside a cave, hewn out in the rock. This cave lies about 40 meters South of the gate of Tiddis-Kheneg along the paved main-road. L.H. 0.05-0.03. I(nvicto) M(ithrae) ...

Fragmentary Latin inscription from Simitthus (Chemtou), dated to the reign of Caracalla and Julia Maesa. It refers to a restoration (?) and concludes with the fulfilment of a vow to Cautes and ...

Peter Mark Adams challenges current academic conventions by restoring the term ‘mysteries’ to the cult of Mithras while offering a deep, well-informed, and nuanced point of view. His new book, ‘Ritual ...

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 ...

Nothing is more fatal, indeed, than to love the obscenities and depravities of vice. What shall I say of the shameful scenes which take place in the caves where they hide their eyes? To escape from ...

Sur l'initiative conjointe de l'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei et de l'Academia Bélgica, une séance solennelle d'hommage à la mémoire de Franz Cumont s'est tenue à Rome le 13 janvier dernier. Par une ...