Les inscriptions du mithraeum d’Angers-Iuliomagus (Maine-et-Loire) : nouvelles données sur le culte de Mithra

Molin, Michel; Brodeur, Jean; Mortreau, Maxime

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“…The military aspect is in any case well marked on an altar at Bonn, erected in 295 by legionaries who restored the local temple of Mars in honour of the domus divina (CIL XIII, 8019). After this date, the gods of polytheism disappeared from provincial epigraphy, with the exceptions of the dedication of the mithraeum of Speyer (Noviomagus Nemetum) in 325, again in a military context, and two recently discovered inscriptions from the 4th century from another mithraeum in Angers/Iuliomagus (Molin, Brodeur and Mortreau 2015). The other texts, just as rare, appear in a Christian context in Lyon in 334 (St Irene's Church), at Valcabrère near Lugdunum Convenarum in 347 and at Autun in 378, and even the Manes are still mentioned on a funeral inscription from 352 in Zülpich in lower Germany.…”

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Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

2023

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What does it mean to identify oneself as pagan or Christian in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages? How are religious identities constructed, negotiated, and represented in oral and written discourse? How is identity performed in rituals, how is it visible in material remains? Antiquity and the Middle Ages are usually regarded as two separate fields of scholarship. However, the period between the fourth and tenth centuries remains a time of transformations in which the process of religious change and identity building reached beyond the chronological boundary and the Roman, the Christian and ‘the barbarian’ traditions were merged in multiple ways. Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages brings together researchers from various fields, including archaeology, history, classical studies, and theology, to enhance discussion of this period of change as one continuum across the artificial borders of the different scholarly disciplines. With new archaeological data and contributions from scholars specializing on both textual and material remains, these different fields of study shed light on how religious identities of the people of the past are defined and identified. The contributions reassess the interplay of diversity and homogenising tendencies in a shifting religious landscape. Beyond the diversity of traditions, this book highlights the growing capacity of Christianity to hold together, under its control, the different dimensions – identity, cultural, ethical and emotional – of individual and collective religious experience.

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Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

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“…These results are then related to the conclusions of other archaeologists who have worked on rates of public construction, notably Hélène Jouffroy (italy, n. Africa) and Penelope Goodman (Galliae). 8 The overall conclusion is that in the Galof Religion and Violence (started 2013, formerly Academic Publishing, now Philosophy documentation center) 7. molin, Brodeur andmortreau, 2015, cf. AE 2015, 926-930.…”

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Walsh, David: The cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity development, decline and demise ca. A.D. 270-430, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2018

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the publication of this doctoral thesis from the University of canterbury (UK) is timely. it forms part of the on-going project of Luke Lavan, director of the centre for Late Antique Archaeology at canterbury, to encourage a dialogue between those who work primarily on late-antique texts and archaeologists concerned with late-antique material culture. So far the centre has published eight volumes in the series Late Antique Archaeology (Brill), of which the most relevant to this dissertation was The Archaeology of late-antique "Paganism", the proceedings of a conference held in Leuven, where Lavan was a post-doctoral fellow, in 2005. 1 Apart from a handful of studies of the city of Rome itself, 2 and a very one-sided 1. Lavan and mulryan, 2011. The coverage of the book is rather uneven, however, as is the quality of the contributions.

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Les dévots latinophones de Mithra disaient-ils leurs ‘mystères’—et si oui, comment ?

Belayche

2022

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Studying the epigraphic testimonies of Mithraists should be a suitable approach to our task of tracing the mysteries in Latin, because Roman worshippers of Mithras were Latin speakers in their vast majority. Moreover, a certain proportion of them had their origin in the Greek-speaking Mediterranean, where mysteria were known. And yet there is almost no lexicon of ‘mysteries’ in these texts, although a Latin lexicon was available for talking about the mysteries. A close study of the few terms that might be related to an eventual expression of the ‘mysteries’—sacratus/a, consacranus/a, fratres, syndexi—produces results less convincing than is usually thought. However, at the end of the fourth century in Rome there does seem to be a shift in the way in which the entry into each grade (traditio) is expressed. In the end, this kind of lexical analysis reveals less about the ‘mysteries’ of Mithra than it does about the profoundly Roman nature of the organization of these religious groups.

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Les inscriptions du mithraeum d’Angers-Iuliomagus (Maine-et-Loire) : nouvelles données sur le culte de Mithra

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

Walsh, David: The cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity development, decline and demise ca. A.D. 270-430, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2018

Les dévots latinophones de Mithra disaient-ils leurs ‘mystères’—et si oui, comment ?

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