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1972, Religion
Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia
Pragmatic cognitive science, rooted in Dewey's epistemology and models of distributed cognition, offers new hypotheses for the emergence and decline of the Mithraic rites. These models foreground the responsiveness of the rites to their economic and social environment, generating new form-meaning pairs through multimodal engagements inside the Mithraic caves. These moments of cognitive blending answered the needs of the early social catchment of the rites, which was predominantly freedmen and soldiers benefitting from the upward mobility of the thriving second century CE. Within the caves, multimodal engagements with the triumph of light over dark physical movement, imagery, gesture, role playing, and interaction with cult equipment - aligned the experience of the initiate with Mithras' cosmological triumph. The caves are also a confluence of mechanisms for social mobility that were broadly familiar in the imperial period, including patronage, symposia, engagement with exoti...
The Mysteries of Mithras and Other Mystic Cults in the Roman World, 2018
The aim of the article is to cast a light on the nature of the cult of Mithras in Central Italy, focusing on the administrative division of Roman Etruria. Indeed, the Regio VII has emerged as a privileged territory to explore different aspects of the cult, due to the great variety of its artefacts. Hence, a model of diffusion of the Mithraic marble religious artifacts across the region and through the Roman main viability is presented, highlighting its dependence on public officials, responsible for both spreading government-endorsed iconographies and managing the Imperial marble industry. Consequently, the active role played by the Imperial administration in promoting the Mithras worship in Etruria is discussed, as well as the cult diffusion among the lower classes and (by the Middle/Late Empire) the aristocratic élites. The last phases of the cult within the region are also explored, showing how the Mithraic spelaea were dismissed according to a variety of different modalities during the first decades of the 5th century AD, ranging from violent destruction to pacific abandonment of their structures.
2016
1. Luciano ALBANESE luciano.albanese@uniroma1.it ―Porfirio, l‘Antro delle ninfe e i misteri di Mithra‖ The aim of this paper is to compare the Porphyry‘s lecture of tauroctony in The Cave of The Nymphs (borrowed from Eubulus and Pallas, maybe also Numenius?) with the mithraic archaelogical finds. 2. José David Mendoza ÁLVAREZ, luckyman76@hotmail.com , ―Mitras y otros cultos orientales en el anfiteatro de Itálica‖, /“Mithras and Other oriental Cults in the Amphitheater of Italica.‖ This research is part of our project Doctoral Thesis that discusses the amphitheater of Italica, which we intend to show the results for the cult practiced therein. Thus, we present a new hypothesis of possible rooms of religion distributed along the annular gallery under the podium. 3. Giovanna BASTIANELLI , gawain@virgilio.it. ―Mithras in Umbria‖ Many finds testify to the cult of Mithras in Regio VI, Umbria. These include inscriptions, two altars, two reliefs, and two Tauroctonies, which were either foun...
This study will seek to investigate the evidence of mystery-cults found in Roman Britain in an attempt to understand their place within the religious realm of the province. Attention will be given to the cults of Isis and the Egyptian gods, of Cybele and Attis, Bacchus, and Mithras. Considered will be questions of how these cults were organized, who engaged in them, and how the evidence from Britain effects the greater understanding of the cults within the Empire.
2008
ABSTRACT This paper analyses some of the special features in the social composition of those initiated into the Mithraic mysteries. It also examines how the relationship of the Mithraic Cult with the Roman political power was and how a god of Persian origin could establish this relationship. In the complex and assorted market represented by the religious scene present in the Greek-Roman world of the last Era, any study of what could be the offer made by any new religion to neophytes in trying to get hold of a share of the mentioned market becomes very interesting. That is particularly true if we attend to the fact that these new religions had beaten the initial barriers to entry into society and obstacles long established by the Roman local authorities on the religious practices that came from the East. Regardless of whether the general parameters of the religiousness had changed during the Greek period or not, we want to focus on the main characteristics of Mithraic Cult in order to study in-depth what an individual could find at this time of new religious offerings. Together with the salvation and eternal life promises inherent to other mystery practices developed in the East, it should be also recognized that a strong psychological component contained in the group of ritual practices
Mithras Journal: an academic and religious journal of Greek, Roman and Persian Studies, 2008
This paper analyses some of the special features in the social composition of those initiated into the Mithraic mysteries. It also examines how the relationship of the Mithraic Cult with the Roman political power was and how a god of Persian origin could establish this relationship.
S. Nagel - J.F. Quack - C. Witschel (eds.), Entangled Worlds: Religious Confluences between East and West in the Roman Empire. The Cults of Isis, Mithras, and Jupiter Dolichenus (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike Bd. 22), Tübingen 2017, 1-22
Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity: Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland, 2020
Wiley Blackwell, 2020
Acta Ant. Hung. 58: 427-463, 2018
Being Roman: Roman Provincial Art (ed. Hoffman & Brody), 2014
Ad fines imperii Romani. Studia Thaddaeo Sarnowski ab amicis, collegis discipulisque dedicata, 2015
A TERRACOTTA MASK OF MITHRAS FOUND AT CAMİHÖYÜK-AVANOS, CAPPADOCIA PROVIDING NEW EVIDENCE ON THE MITHRAIC CULT AND RITUAL PRACTICES IN ANATOLIA, 2011
Images of Mithra, 2017
Pantheon 7/1, 2012
Moga, Iulian (ed.) Angels, Demons and Representations of Afterlife within the Jewish, Pagan and Christian Imagery. Iasi, 2013. (in print), 2013
in McCarty & Egri, THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ROMAN MITHRAISM, 2020
Religio: Revue pro religionistiku , 2021
Archaeopress Oxford, 2018
Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2018
Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2018
Semitica et Classica, 2008