The Mysteries of Mithras: A Different Account

Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of illustrations -- Chapter 1: Basic Elements of Mithraism -- 1. Character and Bias of Ancient Sources on Mithraism -- 2. The Seven Grades of Initiation -- 3. The Initiatory Rituals -- 4. The Fourth Grade: Leo and his God Jupiter -- 5. A Chr...

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Main Author: Mastrocinque, Attilio 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck 2017
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Reviews:The Mysteries of Mithras. A Different Account (2018) (Gordon, Richard)
Edition:1st ed.
Series/Journal:Orientalische Religionen in der Antike v.24
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mithraism
B Mysteries
RelBib Classification:FA Theology
Further subjects:B Philosophy Miscellanea
B Electronic books
B Philosophy--Miscellanea
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Print version: Mastrocinque, Attilio: The Mysteries of Mithras : A Different Account. - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck,c2017. - 9783161551123

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520 |a Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of illustrations -- Chapter 1: Basic Elements of Mithraism -- 1. Character and Bias of Ancient Sources on Mithraism -- 2. The Seven Grades of Initiation -- 3. The Initiatory Rituals -- 4. The Fourth Grade: Leo and his God Jupiter -- 5. A Christian Imitation of the Seven Initiation Grades -- 6. The Mithraic Cave -- 7. The Two Niches in the Mithraic Cave -- 8. Theories on the Cultural Origin of Mithraism -- 9. Mithraism from Zoroaster to Plato -- 10. How Christian was Roman Mithraism -- 11. History of Scholarly Research in Mithraism -- Chapter 2: Mithraism, Kings, and Emperors -- 12. How were the Roman Emperors involved in Mithraism? -- 13. Who was Mithras? -- 14. Mithras and the Kings -- 15. The King as Mithras -- 16. Tauroctony on Coins from Tarsus -- 17. Invictus -- 18. The Cosmocrator and other Imperial Iconographies -- 19. Victoria and the Imperial Eagle -- 20. Sol and the Emperor -- 21. The Apotheosis of Roman Emperor -- 22. The Priests of Apollo -- 23. Apollo - Mithras -- 24. A Persian God with Divus Augustus -- 25. Salvation of the Soul -- 26. Mithras between Imperial Apotheosis and damnatio memoriae -- Chapter 3: The Myths of the Origins (left Predellas) -- 27. Victoria and Mithras I: Saturn's Dream -- 28. Victoria and Mithras II: The Birth of Mithras from the Rock -- 29. Victoria and Mithras III: from Gigantomachy to the Birth of Mithras -- 30. The Miracle of the Water and the Birth of a New Humankind -- 31. Jupiter at Actium, the Gigantomachy, and the Sistrum -- 32. The Mithraic Prophecy -- 33. The End of the Civil War and the Prophecy -- 34. The Magi at Bethlehem -- 35. Mithras as an Archer -- 36. Appendix 1. Cautes and Cautopates -- Chapter 4: The Myth of the Bull (Central Scene and Upper Predellas) 
520 |a 37. The Sacrifice of the Bull -- 38. The Meaning of the Mithraic Bull -- 39. Danaos, the Bull, and Augustus -- 40. The Bull on a Boat -- 41. Mercury and the Transitus -- 42. Salvation in the Mysteries of Mithras -- 43. Mithras the Hunter -- Chapter 5: Sol's Coronation and Mithras' Apotheosis (Right Predellas) -- 44. The Right Predellas: Mithras and Sol -- 45. Mithras' Apotheosis -- 46. Refusing the Crown -- 47. The Spread of Mithraism in the Roman Empire -- 48. Imperial Freedmen and Mithraism -- 49. From Nero to Vespasian -- 50. Appendix 2. Tiridates' Coronation and Mithraism -- Chapter 6: The Mithraic Aiones -- 51. Mazdaism vs. Mithraism -- 52. The Lion-Headed God -- 53. Orphic Pattern in Mithraism -- 54. The Lion and the Snake -- 55. The Supreme Triad of Mithraism -- 56. Treatment of Mazdaism -- 57. Tarsian Culture under the Roman Empire -- 58. Sandas, the Tarsian God of War and of the Dead -- 59. The God of the Dead is raised to the Hypercosmic World -- Chapter 7: The System of Planetary and Hypercosmic Gods -- 60. The Seven Gods According to History. The First Four Gods -- 61. The Seven Gods According to Ancient Theogonies -- 62. The Three Uppermost Initiatory Grades -- 63. The Geography of a Mithraeum -- 64. The Whole System of Mithraic Gods -- 65. The Mithraic Triangle -- 66. The Central Position of Sol -- 67. The Mithraic Theogony -- Chapter 8: Mithraism and the Magic Arts -- 68. Magic Deceptions -- 69. Knowledge of natural Substances among Hellenistic Magi -- 70. Magical Performances at Banquets -- 71. Supposed Magi -- 72. Gnostic Imitations of magic Performances -- 73. Speaking Skulls -- 74. Tricks during Mithraic Banquets -- 75. Deception or Truth? -- 76. How was a Mithraic Community organized? -- 77. The Psychological Impact of the Mysteries of Mithras 
520 |a 78. Teaching within the three higher Grades -- 79. Mithraic Secrecy and public Cults -- Chapter 9: The Evolution of the Mithraism -- 80. Serapis in Some Mithraea -- 81. Hecate in Some Mithraea -- Chapter 10: Para-Mithraism -- 82. Mithraic Worship out of the Mithraea -- 83. The Mithraic Catechism from Egypt -- 84. The "Mithras Liturgy" -- Chapter 11: The latest devotees of Mithras -- 85. The End of Mithraism -- 86. The Mysteries of Mithras in the Christian Empire -- 87. Julian the Emperor and the Mysteries of Mithras -- 88. Julian and the Imperial Ideology -- 89. Romanization of Eastern Cults -- Bibliography -- Index -- I. General Index -- II. Index locorum 
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