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 ...

Fritz Saxl interprets Mithraism primarily through its images, proposing the cult as a visual cosmology structured around the descent, sacrifice and re-ascent of light, developed in close dialogue with ...

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras. Your search gave 167 results. This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ...

Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean.

Giacomo Caputo writes us about an inscription, discovered at the Roman Fort of Bu-Ngem by the British School at Rome. Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all ...

Ciciliano is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region of Latium, located about 35 kilometres east of Rome. Gold lamina from Ciciliano showing a nude, serpent-entwined ...

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements. The statue ...