The Mysteries of Mithra: The Definitive Account of a Crucial Historical Moment When a Colorful Oriental Religion Swept Over the Roman Empire

ISBN-13: 9781138614147 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Franz Cumont

Opis

First published in 1956, this seminal study, by the great Belgian scholar Franz Cumont, remains the definitive coverage and reconstruction of Mithraism in the first centuries of the Christian era.

Spis treści

1. The Origins of Mithraism. 2. The Dissemination of Mithraism in the Roman Empire. 3. Mithra and the Imperial Power of Rome. 4. The Doctrine of the Mithraic Mysteries. 5. The Mithraic Liturgy, Clergy and Devotees. 6. Mithraism and the Religions of the Empire. 7. Mithraic Art.

O autorze

Franz Cumont