The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun
Author:   Roger Beck (Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   12 January 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Roger Beck (Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.608kg
ISBN:  

9780198140894


ISBN 10:   0198140894
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   12 January 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction to interpreting the mysteries: old ways, new ways 2: Old ways: the reconstruction of Mithraic doctrine from iconography 3: The problem of referents: interpretation with reference to what? 4: Doctrine redefined Transition: from old ways to new ways 5: The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 1. Introduction and comparisons 6: Cognition and representation 7: The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 2. The mithraeum 8: Star-talk: the symbols of the Mithraic mysteries as language signs 9: The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 3. The tauroctony Conclusions

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This makes for an interesting eclectic journey through one of the most mysterious cults in the Roman Empire... Throughout the book this interpretative scheme is filled out with impressively meticulous analysis of the textual evidence, the symbolic structutre of the mithraeum, and the tauroctony. Anders Lisdorf, Journal of Roman Studies


This makes for an interesting eclectic journey through one of the most mysterious cults in the Roman Empire... Throughout the book this interpretative scheme is filled out with impressively meticulous analysis of the textual evidence, the symbolic structutre of the mithraeum, and the tauroctony. Anders Lisdorf, Journal of Roman Studies not only compulsory reading for any scholar or student working on Mithraism, but ought to be taken full account of also by anyone with an interest in the study of ancient religion in general ... the persistent reader will be rewarded with the rich experience of having his or her thoughts continuously provoked by a great historian of ancient religion in the course of his attempts to make sense of the fascinating phenomena that were the Mithraic mysteries. Ted Kaiser, Ancient West & East


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Roger Beck is Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto.

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