In these two key passages, Justin Martyr interprets Mithraic rituals and myths as demonic parodies of Christ’s incarnation, ...

Marble votive altar (H. 0.77 Br. 0.30 D. 0.16). Inv. No. 155. Above the list there are coils with an fan-like motif. In its front an inscription: CIL III 15184. L.H ...

In Letter 107 to Laeta, Jerome combines a pastoral reflection on conversion with an account of the urban prefect Gracchus, ...

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

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 ...

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras Slab in sandstone (H. 0.67), found along the border of the Tagus.

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

In these passages from his hymns and satires, Julian articulates a solar theology in which Helios governs cosmic order and time. Within this framework, Mithras appears as a personal divine guide ...

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.

Centurio frumentarius probably from Tarraco, who served in the Legio VII Gemina located in Emerita Agusta.

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.