Mithriaca i the Mithraeum at S. Maria Capua Vetere
Author : Maarten Jozef Vermaseren
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
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Author : Maarten Jozef Vermaseren
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
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Author : Vermaseren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9004296182
Preliminary material /M.J. Vermaseren -- THE MITHRAEUM AT S. MARIA CAPUA VETERE /M.J. Vermaseren -- GENERAL INDEX /M.J. Vermaseren -- PUTE I /M.J. Vermaseren.
Author : M. J. Vermaseren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9004294783
Preliminary material -- GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING AND PAINTINGS -- THE ICONOGRAPHY AND THE DATING OF THE PAINTINGS -- THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE MITHRAEUM AND ITS PAINTINGS -- INDEX -- LIST OF PLATES -- PLATE.
Author : Eric M. Vanden Eykel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567667995
This study of the Protevangelium of James explores the interrelationship of authors, readers, texts, and meaning. Its central aim is to better understand how the process of repetition gave rise to the narratives of the early Christian movement, and how that process continued to fuel the creativity and imagination of future generations. Divided into three parts, Vanden Eykel addresses first specific episodes in the life of the Virgin, consisting of Mary's childhood in the Jerusalem temple (PJ 7-9), her spinning thread for the temple veil (PJ 10-12), and Jesus' birth in a cave outside Bethlehem (PJ 17-20). The three episodes present a uniform picture of how the reader's discernment of intertexts can generate new layers of meaning, and that these layers may reveal new aspects of the author's meaning, some of which the author may not have anticipated.
Author : Michael Speidel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9004295615
Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BULL SLAYING SCENE AS A SERIES OF EQUATORIAL CONSTELLATIONS -- MITHRAS-ORION -- THE IMAGE OF THE HEAVENS AND THE CULT ICON -- GREEK HERO -- ROMAN GOD -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Author : Roger Beck
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0191518239
A study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the 'mystery cults' popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life. He employs the methods of anthropology of religion and the new cognitive science of religion to explore in detail the semiotics of the Mysteries' astral symbolism, which has been the principal subject of his many previous publications on the cult.
Author : Jaś Elsner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108473075
Explores the problems for studying art and religion in Eurasia arising from ancestral, colonial and post-colonial biases in historiography.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9004440143
This book fills a gap in the study of mystery cults in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Focusing on the visual language surrounding these cults, it aims to understand how images depict mysteries in different cults: Dionysus, Mithras, Mother of the Gods, and Isiac cults.
Author : Giovanni Casadio
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0292749945
In Vergil's Aeneid, the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world, particularly those that flourished in Magna Graecia (essentially the area of present-day Southern Italy and Sicily). Implementing a variety of methodologies, the contributors to Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia examine an array of features associated with such "mystery religions" that were concerned with individual salvation through initiation and hidden knowledge rather than civic cults directed toward Olympian deities usually associated with Greek religion. Contributors present contemporary theories of ancient religion, field reports from recent archaeological work, and other frameworks for exploring mystic cults in general and individual deities specifically, with observations about cultural interactions throughout. Topics include Dionysos and Orpheus, the Goddess Cults, Isis in Italy, and Roman Mithras, explored by an international array of scholars including Giulia Sfameni Gasparro ("Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia") and Alberto Bernabé ("Imago Inferorum Orphica"). The resulting volume illuminates this often misunderstood range of religious phenomena.
Author : Attilio Mastrocinque
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161551123
Attilio Mastrocinque explains the mysteries of Mithras in a new way, as a transformation of Mazdean elements into an ideological and religious reading of Augustus' story. The author shows that the character of Mithras played the role of Apollo in favoring Augustus' victory and the birth of the Roman Empire.