Coping with Images of Initiations in the Mithras Cult
This paper starts with a preliminary reflection on the broader field of “mystery cults”, which are characterized by a ban on divulgation and the incommunicability of experience. The “mysteries” of Mithras present a further difficulty: their images, built within Roman contexts, lack the visual marker...
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| Language: | Italian |
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Salvatore Sciascia Editore
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Mythos |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/mythos/3029 |