Mysteria Mithrae

Author : Ugo Bianchi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1047 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295605

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Mysteria Mithrae by Ugo Bianchi Pdf

Author : Ugo Bianchi
Publisher : Brill
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : UOM:39015013971299

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Mysteria Mithrae by Ugo Bianchi Pdf

Author : Margherita Guarducci
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004296497

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Scritti scelti sulla religione greca e romana e sul Cristianesimo by Margherita Guarducci Pdf

Preliminary material -- LA «ESCHARA» DEL TEMPIO GRECO ARCAICO -- BRYAKTES Un contributo allo studio dei «banchetti» eroici -- CIBELE IN UN'EPIGRAFE ARCAICA DI LOCRI EPIZEFIRÎ -- L'EPIGRAMMA GRECO DEL BAMBINO EUTYCHES AD ALBANO LAZIALE -- ANCORA SULL'INNO CRETESE A ZEUS DICTEO -- L'OFFERTA DI XENOKRATEIA NEL SANTUARIO DI CEFISO AL F ALERO -- GLI «ANGELI» DI TERA -- LAMINETTE AUREE ORFICHE: ALCUNI PROBLEMI -- QUALCHE OSSERVAZIONE SULLA LAMINETTA ORFICA DI HIPPONION -- ANCORA SUL MISTERIOSO E DI DELFI -- HORA QUIRINI -- LA FORTUNA E SERVIO TULLIO IN UN'ANTICHISSIMA SORS -- ANCORA SULL'ANTICA SORS DELLA FORTUNA E DI SERVIO TULLIO -- SOL INVICTUS AUGUSTUS -- IL TEMPIO DELLA DEA CONCORDIA IN UN BASSORILIEVO DEI MUSEI VATICANI -- IANUS GEMINUS -- L'ISOLA TIBERINA E LA SUA TRADIZIONE OSPITALIERA -- ENEA E VESTA -- L'EPIGRAFE REX NELLA REGIA DEL FORO ROMANO -- NUOVE OSSER VAZIONI SULLA LAMINA BRONZEA DI CERERE A LAVINIO -- LA MISTERIOSA ISCRIZIONE MEDIEVALE DI PISA, BARGA E LUCCA -- ISCRIZIONE IMPRECATORIA DI SPERLONGA -- L'EPIGRAFE GRECA DELLA «CELESTE ANNA» NEL MUSEO OLIVERIANO -- L'ISCRIZIONE DI ABERCIO E ROMA -- L'ISCRIZIONE DI ABERCIO E LA «VERGINE CASTA» -- VALENTINIANI A ROMA: RICERCHE EPIGRAFICHE ED ARCHEOLOGICHE -- ANCORA SUI VALENTINIANI A ROMA -- IL MISSIONARIO DI LIONE -- IL PRIMATO DELLA CHIESA DI ROMA -- DAL GIOCO LETTERALE ALLA CRITTOGRAFIA MISTICA -- ÉTUDES PRÉLIMINAIRES AUX RELIGIONS ORIENTALES DANS L'EMPIRE ROMAIN.

Author : Elisa Lissi-Caronna
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004296565

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Il Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum (S. Stefano Rotondo) by Elisa Lissi-Caronna Pdf

Preliminary material -- LO SCAVO -- L'EDIFICIO DEL MITREO -- IL MITREO (PRIMA FASE) -- IL MITREO (SECONDA FASE) -- I TRE VANI A SUD DEL MITREO -- IMPORTANZA DEL MITREO DEI CASTRA PEREGRINORUM -- INDEX -- ELENCO DELLE TAVOLE -- TAVOLA.

Author : Manfred Clauss
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474465793

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Roman Cult of Mithras by Manfred Clauss Pdf

Since its publication in Germany, Manfred Clauss's introduction to the Roman Mithras cult has become widely accepted as the most reliable, as well as the most readable, account of its elusive and fascinating subject. For the English edition the author has revised the work to take account of recent research and new archaeological discoveries. The mystery cult of Mithras first became evident in Rome towards the end of the first century AD. During the next two centuries, carried by its soldier and merchant devotees, it spread to the frontier of the western empire from Britain to Bosnia. Perhaps because of odd similarities between the cult and their own religion the early Christians energetically suppressed it, frequently constructing churches over the caves (Mithraea) in which its rituals took place. By the end of the fourth century the cult was extinct.Professor Clauss draws on the archaeological evidence from over 400 temples and their contents including over a thousand representations of ritual in sculpure and painting to seek an understanding of the nature and purpose of the cult, and what its mysteries and secret rites of initiation and sacrifice meant to its devotees. In doing so he introduces the reader to the nature of the polytheistic societies of the Roman Empire, in which relations and distinctions between gods and mortals now seem strangely close and blurred. He also considers the connections of Mithraicism with astrology, and examines how far it can be seen as a direct descendant of the ancient cult of Mitra, the Persian god of contract, cattle and light. The book combines imaginative insight with coherent argument. It is well-structured, accessibly written and extensively illustrated. Richard Gordon, the translator and himself a distinguished scholar of the subject, has provided a bibliography of further reading for anglophone readers.

Author : M. J. Vermaseren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004294783

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The Mithraeum at Marino by M. J. Vermaseren Pdf

Preliminary material -- GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING AND PAINTINGS -- THE ICONOGRAPHY AND THE DATING OF THE PAINTINGS -- THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE MITHRAEUM AND ITS PAINTINGS -- INDEX -- LIST OF PLATES -- PLATE.

Author : Christian H. Bull,Liv Lied,John D. Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004212077

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Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices by Christian H. Bull,Liv Lied,John D. Turner Pdf

Drawing on a wide array of sources, this anthology sets out to analyze the concepts of mystery and secrecy that occur in the ritual and rhetoric of antique Mediterranean religion, with an emphasis on Gnosticism, Christianity, and Paganism.

Author : Ioan Petru Culianu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004296503

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Psychanodia by Ioan Petru Culianu Pdf

Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- DELIMITATION AND MORPHOLOGY OF THE PHENOMENON -- A HISTORICAL FALLACY: THE THEORIES OF THE “RELIGIONSGESCHICHTLICHE SCHULE” -- A CHALLENGE: THE THEORY OF THE GREEK ORIGINS -- THE ORIGINS OF THE APOCALYPTIC GENRE -- THE CELESTIAL ESCHATOLOGY AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS -- THE MYTHS OF PLUTARCH -- THE PASSAGE OF THE SOUL THROUGH THE SPHERES -- FROM THE JEWISH APOCALYPSES TO THE MI'RAJ -- PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE MEDIEV AL APOCALYPSES -- NOTES TO CHAPTER ONE -- INDEX NOMINUM RERUMQUE.

Author : Yuri Stoyanov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300190144

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The Other God by Yuri Stoyanov Pdf

DIVDIVThis fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and the Orphics in antiquity through the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mithraic Mysteries, and the great Gnostic teachers to its revival in medieval Europe with the suppression of the Bogomils and the Cathars, heirs to the age-long teachings of dualism. Integrating political, cultural, and religious history, Yuri Stoyanov illuminates the dualist religious systems, recreating in vivid detail the diverse worlds of their striking ideas and beliefs, their convoluted mythologies and symbolism. Reviews of an earlier edition: “A book of prime importance for anyone interested in the history of religious dualism. The author’s knowledge of relevant original sources is remarkable; and he has distilled them into a convincing and very readable whole.”—Sir Steven Runciman “The most fascinating historical detective story since Steven Runciman’s Sicilian Vespers.”—Colin Wilson “A splendid account of the decline of the dualist tradition in the East . . . both strong and accessible. . . . The most readable account of Balkan heresy ever.”—Jeffrey B. Russell, Journal of Religion “Well-written, fact-filled, and fascinating . . . has in it the making of a classic.” —Harry T. Norris, Bulletin of SOAS/div/div

Author : Philippa Adrych,Robert Bracey,Dominic Dalglish,Stefanie Lenk,Rachel Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192511119

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Images of Mithra by Philippa Adrych,Robert Bracey,Dominic Dalglish,Stefanie Lenk,Rachel Wood Pdf

With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium AD. Even today, this name has a place in Yazidi and Zoroastrian religion. But what connection have Mihr in Persia, Miiro in Kushan Bactria, and Mithras in the Roman Empire to one another? Over the course of the volume, specialists in the material culture of these diverse regions explore appearances of the name Mithra from six distinct locations in antiquity. In a subversion of the usual historical process, the authors begin not from an assessment of texts, but by placing images of Mithra at the heart of their analysis. Careful consideration of each example's own context, situating it in the broader scheme of religious traditions and on-going cultural interactions, is key to this discussion. Such an approach opens up a host of potential comparisons and interpretations that are often side-lined in historical accounts. What Images of Mithra offers is a fresh approach to the ways in which gods were labelled and depicted in the ancient world. Through an emphasis on material culture, a more nuanced understanding of the processes of religious formation is proposed in what is but the first part of the Visual Conversations series.

Author : David Ulansey
Publisher : Cosmology and Salvation in the
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0195067886

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The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries by David Ulansey Pdf

This 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.

Author : R. Beck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004296664

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Planetary gods and planetary orders in the mysteries of Mithras by R. Beck Pdf

Preliminary material /Roger Beck -- The planets and the grades: the problem of a unique order /Roger Beck -- The grade order and exoteric planetary orders: mastery of space and time /Roger Beck -- Orders on the monuments: introduction /Roger Beck -- Orders in mithraea: Sette Sfere and Sette Porte /Roger Beck -- The order of the Bologna relief: the planets and the bull-killing /Roger Beck -- Planets and zodiac: the Housesteads birth scene /Roger Beck -- The Ottaviano Zeno monument: planetary orders implicit in the row of altars; the snake-encircled figures; the ascent of souls (i); Jupiter, Sun and Saturn /Roger Beck -- The planetary order of Contra Celsum 6.22: the ascent of souls(ii); the two revolutions /Roger Beck -- Saturn's primacy: the Sun of midnight /Roger Beck -- Planetary orders and the zodiac in the Barberini fresco: the structures of genesis and apogenesis; Saturn and the snakeencircled god /Roger Beck -- the integrity ofthe Bologna relief /Roger Beck -- INDICES /Roger Beck -- LIST OF PLATES /Roger Beck -- Plates I-IV /Roger Beck.

Author : Attilio Mastrocinque
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161551125

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The Mysteries of Mithras by Attilio Mastrocinque Pdf

Attilio 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 : Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards,Cyril John Gadd,Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond,John Boardman,David Malcolm Lewis,Frank William Walbank,A. E. Astin,John Anthony Crook,Andrew William Lintott,Elizabeth Rawson,Alan K. Bowman,Edward Champlin,Peter Garnsey,Dominic Rathbone,Averil Cameron,Bryan Ward-Perkins,Michael Whitby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 052123445X

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The Cambridge Ancient History by Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards,Cyril John Gadd,Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond,John Boardman,David Malcolm Lewis,Frank William Walbank,A. E. Astin,John Anthony Crook,Andrew William Lintott,Elizabeth Rawson,Alan K. Bowman,Edward Champlin,Peter Garnsey,Dominic Rathbone,Averil Cameron,Bryan Ward-Perkins,Michael Whitby Pdf

Over the past half century The Cambridge Ancient History has established itself as a definitive work of reference. The original edition was published in twelve text volumes between 1924 and 1939. Publication of the new edition began in 1970. Every volume of the old edition has been totally re-thought and re-written with new text, maps, illustrations and bibliographies. Some volumes have had to be expanded into two or more parts and the series has been extended by two extra volumes (XIII and XIV) to cover events up to AD 600, bringing the total number of volumes in the set to fourteen. Existing plates to the volumes are available separately. *Profusely illustrated with maps, drawings and tables. *Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East from prehistoric times to AD 600 by an international cast of editors and contributors.

Author : Rowland B. E. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134677467

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Julian's Gods by Rowland B. E. Smith Pdf

Julian's brief reign (360-363 AD) had a profound impact on his contemporaries, as he worked fervently for a pagan restoration in the Roman Empire, which was rapidly becoming Christian. Julian's Gods focuses on the cultural mentality of `the last pagan Emperor' by examining a wide variety of his own writings. The surviving speeches and treatises, satires and letters offer a rare insight into the personal attitudes and motivations of a remarkable Emperor. They show Julian as a highly educated man, an avid student of Greek philosophy, and a talented author in his own right. This elegant and closely-argued study will deepen understanding not only of Julian, but of the context of fourth century Neoplatonism.