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

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 ...

The sacred phallus in ancient and contemporary religion, from the Shiva linga and the cult of Priapus to Roman phallic symbolism, the curious but suggestive case of the Mithras cult at Tiddis and the ...

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 ...

The Phallus: Sacred Symbol of Male Creative Power Alain Daniélou explores phallic symbolism across religious traditions, from prehistory to India, Egypt and the Greco-Roman world, taking the lingam ...

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 ...

On the relief the front of a temple is represented: two columns with capitals, supporting a tympanum. Between the columns a representation of Mithras’ rockbirth. In his l.h. the youthful, naked god ...

Several marble fragments discovered at Garni have been interpreted by Armenia’s Service for the Protection of Historical Environment and Historical-Cultural Museum-Reserves as remains of a sculptural ...

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

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 ...