1st Edition
The Mysteries of Mithra The Definitive Account of a Crucial Historical Moment when a Colorful Oriental Religion Swept over the Roman Empire
By Franz Cumont
Copyright 1956
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1956, this seminal study, by the great Belgian scholar Franz Cumont, remains the definitive coverage of a great ideological struggle between the West and the Orient in the first centuries of the Christian era. Mithraism, a mystery religion originating in Persia, spread rapidly through the Roman Empire, and achieved such strength that Europe almost became Mithraic. Dr. Cumont,... Read more
1. The Origins of Mithraism. 2. The Dissemination of Mithraism in the Roman Empire. 3. Mithra and the Imperial Power of Rome. 4. The Doctrine of the Mithraic Mysteries. 5. The Mithraic Liturgy, Clergy and Devotees. 6. Mithraism and the Religions of the Empire. 7. Mithraic Art.
Biography
Franz Cumont
