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Author: Philippa Adrych
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0198792530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work presents six case-studies of objects from different periods and regions of antiquity that are labelled by variations of the name Mithra, including the Roman Mithras, Persian Mihr, and Bactrian Miiro. Each chapter places each object in its original context, before questioning its role in religious ritual, tradition, and belief
Author: Philippa Adrych
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-03-09
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0192511106
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium AD. Even today, this name has a place in Yazidi and Zoroastrian religion. But what connection have Mihr in Persia, Miiro in Kushan Bactria, and Mithras in the Roman Empire to one another? Over the course of the volume, specialists in the material culture of these diverse regions explore appearances of the name Mithra from six distinct locations in antiquity. In a subversion of the usual historical process, the authors begin not from an assessment of texts, but by placing images of Mithra at the heart of their analysis. Careful consideration of each example's own context, situating it in the broader scheme of religious traditions and on-going cultural interactions, is key to this discussion. Such an approach opens up a host of potential comparisons and interpretations that are often side-lined in historical accounts. What Images of Mithra offers is a fresh approach to the ways in which gods were labelled and depicted in the ancient world. Through an emphasis on material culture, a more nuanced understanding of the processes of religious formation is proposed in what is but the first part of the Visual Conversations series.
Author: Michael Shenkar
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-09-08
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9004281495
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Intangible Spirits and Graven Images, Michael Shenkar offers a comprehensive treatment of divine iconography in pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia.
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 702
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes section "Numismatic supplement," no. 5-45 (previously issued in the society's Journal, later in its Journal, 3rd ser.).
Author: Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 686
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes indexes to Numismatic supplements.
Author: Payam Nabarz
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Published: 2005-06-09
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781594770272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Mysteries of Mithras presents a revival of this ancient Roman mystery religion, popular from the late second century B.C. Payam Nabarz reveals the history and tenets of Mithraism, its connections to Christianity, Islam, and Freemasonry, and the modern neo-pagan practice of Mithraism today. Included are seven of its initiatory rituals.
Author: Olympia Panagiotidou
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-11-02
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1472567404
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Roman Mithras Cult: A Cognitive Approach is the first full cognitive history of an ancient religion. In this groundbreaking book on one of the most intriguing and mysterious ancient religions, Roger Beck and Olympia Panagiotidou show how cognitive historiography can supplement our historical knowledge and deepen our understanding of past cultural phenomenon. The cult of the sun god Mithras, which spread widely across the Greco-Roman world at the same time as other 'mystery cults' and Christianity, offered to its devotees certain images and assumptions about reality. Initiation into the mysteries of Mithras and participation in the life of the cult significantly affected and transformed the ways in which the initiated perceived themselves, the world, and their position within it. The cult's major ideas were conveyed mainly through its major symbolic complexes. The ancient written testimonies and other records are not adequate to establish a definitive reconstruction of Mithraic theologies and the meaning of its complex symbolic structures. Filling this gap, The Roman Mithras Cult: A Cognitive Approach identifies the cognitive and psychological processes which took place in the minds and bodies of the Mithraists during their initiation and participation in the mysteries, enabling the perception, apprehension, and integration of the essential images and assumptions of the cult in its worldview system.
Author: Attilio Mastrocinque
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2017-08-07
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9783161551123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Asimov, Muhammad Seyfeydinovich
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2000-12-31
Total Pages: 685
ISBN-13: 9231036548
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second part of volume IV deals with the cultural achievements of the various peoples of this immense region: arts and crafts, literature, architecture, music, science, medicine and technology.
