Book Description: Over the course of the second century CE, worship of the Persianate god Mithras swept across the whole of the Roman Empire. With its distinctive traces preserved in the material ...

Books Religions of Rome (Vol. 1: A History; Vol. 2: A Sourcebook) by Mary Beard, John North, and Simon Price (Cambridge University Press, 1998) Ancient Mystery Cults by Walter Burkert (Harvard ...

Franz Cumont, ‘The Mysteries of Mithra’ (1st Eng.tr. 1903, Forgotten Books, 2012) Richard Gordon, ‘Image and Value in the Graeco-Roman World: Studies in Mithraism and Religious Art ...