Title Page : THE MYSTERIES OF MITHRA BY FRANZ CUMONT Translated From The Second Revised French Edition By Thomas J. McCormack Chicago, Open Court [1903] Scanned , February, 2003. J.B. Hare, Redactor. This Text Is In The Public Domain. This File May Be Used For Any Non-commercial Purpose Provided This...
Mithraic Art : p. 209 MITHRAIC ART 1 THE monuments of Mithraism, which have been found in considerable numbers in the provinces of the Occident and even in the Orient, constitute a homogeneous group, of which it is desirable to characterize the importance for the history of Roman art. In point of fact, their...
The Dissemination Of Mithraism In The Roman Empire : p. 33 THE DISSEMINATION OF MITHRAISM IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE IT MAY be said, in a general way, that Mithra remained forever excluded from the Hellenic world. The ancient authors of Greece speak of him only as a foreign god worshipped by the kings of Persia. Even during the Alexandrian epoch he had not...
The Doctrine Of The Mithraic Mysteries : p. 104 THE DOCTRINE OF THE MITHRAIC MYSTERIES FOR more than three centuries Mithraism was practised in the remotest provinces of the Roman empire and under the most diverse conditions. It is not to be supposed for a moment that during this long period its sacred traditions remained unchanged...
The Origins Of Mithraism : p. 1 THE MYSTERIES OF MITHRA THE ORIGINS OF MITHRAISM IN THAT unknown epoch when the ancestors of the Persians were still united with those of the Hindus, they were already worshippers of Mithra. The hymns of the Vedas celebrated his name, as did those of the Avesta, and despite the differences...
Preface To The French Edition : p. iii PREFACE TO THE FRENCH EDITION THE present work, in which we purpose to treat of the origin and history of the Mithraic religion, does not pretend to offer a picture of the downfall of paganism. We shall not attempt, even in a general way, to seek for the causes which expl...
List Of Illustrations : p. xii THE TARUOCTONOUS, OR BULL-SLAYING, MITHRA. Bas-relief Discovered in Aquileia. p. xiii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
The Mithraic Liturgy, Clergy And Devotees : p. 150 THE MITHRAIC LITURGY, CLERGY AND DEVOTEES IN ALL the religions of classical antiquity there is one feature which, while formerly very conspicuous and perhaps the most important of all for the faithful, has to-day almost totally disappeared. It is their liturgy. The Mysteries of Mithra form...
Untitled : Title Page Preface to the French Edition Table of Contents List of Illustrations The Origins Of Mithraism The Dissemination of Mithraism in the Roman Empire Mithra and the Imperial Power of Rome The Doctrine of the Mithraic Mysteries The Mithraic Liturgy, Clergy and Devotees Mithraism...
Mithra And The Imperial Power Of Rome : p. 85 MITHRA AND THE IMPERIAL POWER OF ROME. OWING to the relatively late epoch of their propagation, the Mysteries of Mithra escaped the persecutions that had been the destiny of the other Oriental cults that had preceded them in Rome, especially that of Isis. Among the astrologers or "Chaldans"...
Mithraism And The Religions Of The Empire : p. 175 MITHRAISM AND THE RELIGIONS OF THE EMPIRE THE acts of the Oriental martyrs bear eloquent testimony to the intolerance of the national clergy of the Persia of the Sassanids; and the Magi of the ancient empire, if they were not persecutors, at least constituted an exclusive caste...
