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Important sources for researching Mithras

PRIMARY SOURCES

 

Firmicus Maternus. De errore profanarum religionum, Edited. K. Ziegler (1907). Lipsiae, Teubner.

 

Jerome. Select Letters. Trans. F. A. Wright. (1933). Loeb Classical Library 262. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.

 

Jerome. Epistulae 71–120.  Trans. I. Hilberg ed. Hieronymus, revised ed (1996). Vienna, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 55. 

 

Justinian. Dialogue avec Tryphon, P. Bobichon ed. (2003). Dialogue avec Tryphon, édition critique (in French). Volume 1. University of Fribourg.

 

Lydus. John. De Mensibus, Trans. Hooker. M. (2017). (2nd Ed.) Online: 

https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/John-Lydus-On-the-Months-tr.-Hooker-2nd-ed.-2017-1.pdf  (accessed on 14 May 2021).

 

Mathew 23. Novum Testamentum Latine. Trans. Wordsworth. J., and White. H. (2007). Oxford. Simon Wallenburg Press.

 

Papyri Graecae Magicae. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Vol 1: Texts. Edited by Betz. H. D. (1992). London, second ed, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press.

 

Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Trans. M. Heseltine (1913). London. William Heinemann.

 

Porphyry of Tyre. On the Cave of the Nymphs in The Thirteenth Book of the Odyssey: (c. 268) Greek English Bilingual Edition. (Les Originaux: Série Auteurs de l’Antiquité). (2019). Independently published. 

 

Porphyry of Tyre. On abstinence from killing animals. Trans. G. Clark (2000). London. Bloomsbury Academic.

 

Porphyry of Tyre. Against the Christians. Trans. R. M. Berchman (2005). Leiden, Brill.

 

Rufinus of Aqulileia. Historia ecclesiastica. The church history of Rufinus of Aquileia, books 10 and 11. Trans. P. R. Amidon (1997). New York, Oxford University Press.

 

Socrates Scolasticus. Socrates and Sozomenus Ecclesiastical Histories. Trans. P. Schaff (1886). Grand Rapids, MI, Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

 

Statius, P. Papinius. Statius, Vol I-II. Trans. J. H. Mozley (1928). London. William Heinemann. New York. G.P. Putnam's Sons.

 

Statius, P. Papinius. Statius, Vol I-II. Trans. Mozley. H. H. (1928). London. William Heinemann. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

 

Suetonius. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Edit. Reed. J. E., and Thomson. A. (1889). Philadelphia. Gebbie & Co. 

 

Tacitus. Complete Works of Tacitus. Trans. Church. A. J., Brodribb. W. J., and Bryant. S. edited for Perseus. New York. Random House, Inc. reprinted 1942.

 

Tertullian. De praescriptione haereticorum. Trans. T. H. Bindley. (1914). London. SPCK.

 

Tertullian. De Corona. Trans. F. Ruggiero, (1992). De Corona (Classici greci e latini 30). Milan. Mondadori.

 

Theodosianus. Historia ecclesiastica. Trans. L. Parmentier with F. Scheidweiler ads (1954). Theodoret: Kirchengeschichte (2nd edn.). Berlin, Akademie-Verlag.

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SECONDARY SOURCES

 

Adrych, P., Bracey. R., Dalglish. D., Lenk. S., and Wood, R. (2017). IMAGES of MITHRA, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

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Allegro, J. M., (2009). The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross, 40th Anniversary Ed, Gnostic Media.

 

Beck, R., (2000). Ritual, myth, doctrine, and initiation in the Mysteries of Mithras: new evidence from a cult vessel, Journal of Roman Studies 90, 145-180.

 

Beck, R., (2004). Beck on Mithraism: Collected Works with New Essays, Aldershot, Ashgate.

 

Beck, R., (2006). The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

 

Beck, R., (2017). If So, How? Representing “Coming Back to Life” in the Mysteries of Mithras, University of Toronto. [online] https://comingbacktolife.mcgill.ca/article/view/2/48 (Accessed 22 May 2021).

 

Bloomberg. (2021). London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE app online:

https://www.bloombergconnects.org/ (accessed 09 May 2021).

 

Bloomberg. (2021). London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE (online):

https://www.londonmithraeum.com/artefacts/ (accessed 14 May 2021.

 

Burket, W., (1987). Ancient Mystery Cults, Cambridge, MA., London.

 

Campbell, L. A., (1968). Mithraic Iconography and Ideology, Leiden, Brill.

 

Chalupa, A., (2008). Seven Mithraic Grades: An Initiatory or Priestley Hierarchy? Religio, XVI, 2, Studie, 177-201.

 

Clauss, M., (2000). The Roman Cult of Mithras, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.

 

Clauss, M., (2012). Mithras. Kult und Mysterium. Darmstadt/Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.

 

Chapula, A., (2005). Hyenas or lionesses? Mithraism and omen in the religious world of the Late Antiquity, Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 13 (2), 198–230. 

 

Cumont, F., (1903). The Mysteries of Mithra, Chicago, Open Court.

 

David, J., (2000). The Exclusion of Women in the Mithraic Mysteries: Ancient or Modern?, Numen-international Review for The History of Religions. 47. 121–141.

 

Egri, M., McCarty, M. M., and Rustoiu, A., (2018). A New Mithraic Community at Apulum (Alba Iulia, Romania), Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 205, 268–276.

 

Farone, C. A., (2013). The Amuletic Design of the Mithraic Bull-Wounding Scene, The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 96–116.

 

Gordon, R., (1980). Reality, evocation and boundary in the Mysteries of Mithras, Journal of Mithraic Studies 3, 19-99.

 

Gordon, R., (2009). The Mithraic body, in G. Casadio and P. Johnston (eds.) Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia, Austin, University of Texas Press, 290-313.

 

Griffith, A. B., (2006). Completing the Picture: Women and the Female Principle in the Mithraic Cult, NUMEN 53, 48–77.

 

Haywood, H. L., Ward, J. S. M., Leadbeater, C. W., and Hall, M. P., (2020). Foundations of Freemasonry Series, Freemasonry Mithraism and the Ancient Mysteries, Lamp of Trismegistus.

 

Huld-Zetsche, I., (1986) Mithras in Nida-Heddernheim: Gesamtkatalog (Frankfurt am Main: Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte).

 

Jones, C., (2015). Ten dedications “To the gods and goddesses” and the Antonine Plague. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 18, 293-301.

 

Lewis, C. T., (1890). An Elementary Latin Dictionary, Mansfield Centre, CT, USA, Martino Publishing.

 

Lomas, R., (2018). The Secret Science of Masonic Initiation, Surrey, England, Lewis Masonic, Ian Allan Publishing Ltd.

 

Mandelbaum, L., (2016). The Axis of Mithras, UK, CreateSpace Independent Publishers.

 

Martens, M., Shatzmann, A., saguì, L., Mazzorin, J. D., Höpken, C., Marquart, M., and Sas, K., (2004). Roman Mithraism: the Evidence of the Small Finds. Papers of the international conference, Institute for the Archaeologica l Heritage.

 

Martin, L. H., (2016). The Mind of Mithraists, Historical and Cognitive Studies in The Roman Cult of Mithras, London, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

 

Minos, C., (2021). The Unique Nature of the London Mithraeum, The Post Hole, Issue 41, 34-45.

 

Nicholson, O., (1995). The end of Mithraism. Antiquity. 69. 358-362.

 

Panagiotidou, O., (2018). Secrecy in the Mithras Cult: Concealment, Cognition and Social Cohesion, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 58, 667–679.

 

Panagiotidou, O., and Beck, R., (2019). The Roman Mithras Cult, A Cognitive Approach, London, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 

 

Roman Inscriptions of Britain (online), https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/ (accessed 14 May 2021).

 

Ruck, C. A. P., Hoffman, J. A., and Celdrán, J. A. G., (2011). Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras, San Fransisco, City Lights Books.

 

Shepherd, J. D., (1998). The Temple of Mithras: Excavations by W.F. Grimes and A. Williams at the Walbrook. London, English Heritage.

 

Szabó, Á., (2018). The Two Parts of the “Mithraic Universe” by Right of the External and Internal Orientation of the Cult Image Essay, Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Vol 58: Issue 1-4, 305–324.

 

Ulansey, D., (1989). The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

 

Ulansey, D., (1989). The Mithraic Mysteries, Scientific American, Vol. 261. No. 6, 130-135.

 

Vermaseren, M. J., (1956-60). Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae, 2 Vols, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff.

 

Vermaseren, M. J., (1951). ‘The Miraculous Birth of Mithras’, Mnemosyne, n.s 4, 285-301.

 

Vermaseren, M. J., (1963). Mithras, The Secret God. London, Chatto and Windus.

 

Volken, M., (2004). The development of the cult of Mithras in the western Roman Empire: A SocioArchaeological Perspective, Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies, vol IV, 1–20.

 

Walsh, D., (2019). The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity, Development, Decline and Demise: The Cult of Mithras ca. AD 270 - 430. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent.

 

Wilmshurst, W. L., (2020). Foundations of Freemasonry Series, The Ceremony of Initation, Analysis & Commentary, Lamp of Trismegistus.

 

Yale University Art Gallery (2021) [online] https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/6890 (accessed 28 August 2021).

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