Originally published in Antaios, this interview explores a contemporary form of Mithraism combining solar worship, ...

On universal traditions, local communities, initiation and ritual in the Roman cult of Mithras with Csaba Szabó.

The first documented mentions of the Mithraic cult in Europe, with allusions to Eastern-named gods, profuse and unmistakable iconography, and dark, subterranean temples, appear from the end of the 1st ...

Antiochus I Theos Dikaios Epiphanes Philorhomaios Philhellen (c. 86 - 31 BC), meaning Antiochos, the just, eminent god, friend of Romans and friend of Greeks, was king of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of ...

A contemporary thriller in which a mysterious Mithraic disc leads to murder, conspiracy and religious intrigue across France and England. In 1987 Uganda, Australian trader Billy Sinclair witnesses ...

White marble relief (H. 0.67 Br. 0.97 D. 0.11), broken in two pieces. At first in Rome, Villa Borghese, nowadays Paris, Louvre, Inv. No. 1025. Second century. Mithras, slaying the bull, whose tail ...

Jaime Alvar has set the standard with his trilogy on the cults of Mithras, Isis, Magna Mater and Atis in Hispania. His work is now essential for understanding this phenomenon in the Iberian Peninsula ...

Csaba Szabó is a historian specializing in ancient history and religious studies, focusing on the Danubian provinces of the Roman Empire. Born in Szatmárnémeti, Romania, he studied history and ...

Fragment of a relief in red sandstone (H. 0.19 Br. 0.29 D. 0.08), found at Dieburg in the Frankfurterstrasze. Inv. No. II A 17. Behn, 6 and fig. 4. See fig. 333. The upper corner with four busts of ...

Fragments of a large relief (H. 1.45 Br. 1.60) in red sandstone. When the sanctuary was destroyed, the greater part of the relief was thrown in the river Main. Drexel, 81f No. 1; Esp. Rec. Germ., 183 ...

The terracotta figurine was discovered in the sanctuary complex of Hoghmik, situated approximately 4 km south-east of modern Amasia, on a rocky promontory above the right bank of the Nili, a tributary ...

Regensburg is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the rivers Danube, Naab and Regen, Danube's northernmost point.