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.

In polemical passages from the late second and early third centuries, Tertullian portrays the cult of Mithras as a demonic ...

Late antique legendary biography of Alexander the Great (c. AD 300), where history, myth, and imperial ideology merge around ...

An anonymous late-antique Christian poem, traditionally attributed to Pseudo-Paulinus of Nola (Poema 32, vv. 109–111), that ...

In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic ...

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.

He was initiated and cured thanks to the invincible Nabarze. A certain Terentius Priscus Eucheta [sic], who had been initiated and cured, thanks the invincible god Navarze [Nabarze] for granting his ...

Marcus Caerellius Hieronimus was member, in 198, of the collegium of the fabri tignuariorum Ostiensium (CIL XIV 4569). He was also pater (CIMRM 282, CIL XIV 70) as it is said a small white marble base ...

Son of the patriarch of the Olympius saga, of senatorial rank, who for at least three generations watched over a Mithraic community in the 4th century Rome. Aurelius is the son of Nonius Victor ...

Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome. M(atri) d(eum) m(agnae) I(deae) / et Attidi meno/tyranno ...

Aurelious Heraclides and and his 'brother' Agathopus, mentioned in a bronze plaque found in Sisak bear a Greek name, which does not imply that they themselves were of Greek or Eastern origin.

Son of Aurelius Victor Augentius, grandson of Nonius Victor Olympius, and elder brother of Emlianus. He built temples for worship around 382-383.