Introduction
1: Reconstructions: Mithras in Rome
2: Patrons and Viewers: Dura-Europos
3: Settings: Bourg-Saint-Andéol
4: Identifications: Mihr in Sasanian Iran
5: Interpretations: Miiro in Kushan Bactria
6: Syncretisms: Apollo-Mithras in Commagene
Conclusions
Epilogue - Quetzalcoatl and Mithra
Philippa Adrych read Classics as an undergraduate at Magdalen
College, Oxford. She then proceeded to an MPhil in Roman History,
and is now a DPhil candidate on the Empires of Faith project. She
works on the historiographic problems of the study of Mithras in
the Roman world from an object-based perspective. Robert Bracey
joined the British Museum in 2008 where he conducts research on the
South and Central Asian coins collection. His research focuses
particularly on the Kushan Empire (north India and Central Asia
from the first to fourth centuries AD). He worked on the Empires of
Faith research project from 2013 to 2015, and is currently working
with the
ERC-funded project Beyond Boundaries. Dominic Dalglish studied for
a BA in Ancient History and MA in Classics at the University of
Durham before moving to Oxford to do a Masters in Classical
Archaeology in 2010. He is now a DPhil candidate at Wolfson
College, Oxford, working on the movement of religious ideas in the
Roman Empire, particularly through material culture, as part of the
British Museum's Empires of Faith project. Stefanie Lenk is a DPhil
candidate researching
classical imagery in late antique baptismal spaces in the western
Mediterranean at Wolfson College, Oxford, as part of the British
Museum's Empires of Faith research project. She previously studied
history of art, history,
and curating at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Università
degli Studi di Firenze, Courtauld Institute of Art, and Oxford
University. Rachel Wood is a postdoctoral researcher on the British
Museum's Empires of Faith project and a Junior Research Fellow at
Wolfson College, Oxford. Her current research focuses on religious
iconography in the Sasanian period, in particular on questions
surrounding cultural interaction and local reinterpretations of
images. Her DPhil, from
Lincoln College, Oxford, explored interactions, continuity, and
change in the art of the Hellenistic East (c.330-100 BC).
the best account for those who want to understand the complex
relationship of the Vedic Mitra, the Hellenistic Mithra and the
Roman Mithras ... represents the aurea mediocritas between the dry
positivism and abundance of sources and the abstractions of
contemporary social theories.
*Csaba Szabó, Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades*
a successful, highly innovative collaborative contribution to a
much-studied field which will surely influence similar volumes in
the future. It shows the riches of Mithraic visual culture in a new
light with some fresh observations, which are largely concordant
with recent scholarship, and its focus on (iconographic) diversity
places it well within emergent trends in both Mithraic research and
ancient religions more generally. Images of Mithra is a valuable
read for scholars interested in religious and art history, the
movement of ideas, and the multifarious types of relationships
between iconography and religion.
*Kevin Stoba, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
the focus on the few selected images and the context of each gives
the authors a new perspective on this tantalising feature of Roman
and Eastern religious life.
*Alan Beale, Classics for All*
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