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Author: Philippa Adrych
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0198792530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work presents six case-studies of objects from different periods and regions of antiquity that are labelled by variations of the name Mithra, including the Roman Mithras, Persian Mihr, and Bactrian Miiro. Each chapter places each object in its original context, before questioning its role in religious ritual, tradition, and belief
Author: Michael Shenkar
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-09-08
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9004281495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the the Roman and Tania Ghirshman Prize 2015 by the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. This prize was established in 1973 by the donation made by Roman Ghirshman, one of the prominent French archaeologists of Pre-Islamic Iran. It is awarded annually for a publication in the field of Pre-Islamic Iranian Studies. In Intangible Spirits and Graven Images, Michael Shenkar investigates the perception of ancient Iranian deities and their representation in the Iranian cults. This ground-breaking study traces the evolution of the images of these deities, analyses the origin of their iconography, and evaluates their significance. Shenkar also explores the perception of anthropomorphism and aniconism in ancient Iranian religious imagery, with reference to the material evidence and the written sources, and reassesses the value of the Avestan and Middle Persian texts that are traditionally employed to illuminate Iranian religious imagery. In doing so, this book provides important new insights into the religion and culture of ancient Iran prior to the Islamic conquest.
Author: David Walsh
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-29
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9004383069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult was violently persecuted out of existence by Christians, Walsh demonstrates that the cult’s decline was a far more gradual process that resulted from a variety of factors. He also challenges the popular image of the cult as a monolithic entity, highlighting how by the 4th century Mithras had come to mean different things to different people in different places.
Author: Attilio Mastrocinque
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2017-08-07
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9783161551123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAttilio Mastrocinque explains the mysteries of Mithras in a new way, as a transformation of Mazdean elements into an ideological and religious reading of Augustus' story. The author shows that the character of Mithras played the role of Apollo in favoring Augustus' victory and the birth of the Roman Empire.
Author: Payam Nabarz
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Published: 2005-06-09
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781594770272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mysteries of Mithras presents a revival of this ancient Roman mystery religion, popular from the late second century B.C. Payam Nabarz reveals the history and tenets of Mithraism, its connections to Christianity, Islam, and Freemasonry, and the modern neo-pagan practice of Mithraism today. Included are seven of its initiatory rituals.
Author: Manfred Clauss
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-25
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1351540785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2001. The Mithras cult first became evident in Rome towards the end of the first century AD. During the next two centuries, it spread to the frontiers of the Western empire. Energetically suppressed by the early Christians, who frequently constructed their churches over the caves in which Mithraic rituals took place, the cult was extinct by the end of the fourth century. Since its publication in Germany, Manfred Clauss's introduction to the Roman Mithras cult has become widely accepted as the most reliable and readable account of this fascinating subject. For the English edition, Clauss has updated the book to reflect recent research and new archaeological discoveries.
Author: Abolala Soudavar
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-02-10
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1312106069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough by its title, this book seems to be about a specialized topic, the spread of Mithraic societies and its avatars, in time and geographical expanse, much enhances its relevancy. From Roman legionaries to chivalry orders, from dervish circles to guild organizations, and from Freemasons to French revolutionaries, the hierarchy of Mithraic societies, their initiation rites, and their oaths of secrecy, provided a model for brotherhood organization that was efficient, but also flexible; they could adapt their philosophy to the prevailing politico-religion conditions of the day, because they did not worship any particular god, but could also be comrades in arms with nascent religious movements, such as with Christianity. Mithra was the initial guarantor of their oath, and if need be it could be replaced by Jesus, Allah or any other divinity. Their "religion" was their brotherhood, and as such they usually provided a counter-balance to the power elite, and had the potential to become politically active.
Author: Franz Cumont
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 278
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Ulansey
Publisher: Cosmology and Salvation in the
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780195067880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume sets forth a new explanation of the meaning of the cult of Mithraism, tracing its origins not, as commonly held, to the ancient Persian religion, but to ancient astronomy and cosmology.
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 702
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes section "Numismatic supplement," no. 5-45 (previously issued in the society's Journal, later in its Journal, 3rd ser.).
