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What is Materiality?

Philippa Adrych gives us an overview of the 7th June colloquium, Talking Religion: discussing religious materiality hosted by TORCH and the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford, that was a celebration of our latest publication, Images of Mithra.

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Empires of FaithJuly 6, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

Mithra in Commagene: some sort of mix-up

The sixth and final part in a series of weekly installments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra’, published in March 2017, looks at the Kingdom of Commagene, the appearance of ‘Apollo-Mithras-Helios-Hermes’, and what we might learn about the nature of gods.

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Empires of FaithMay 3, 2017July 6, 20171 Comment

Mithra: the surprising inadequacy of labels

The fifth in a series of weekly installments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra’, published in March 2017, looks at coins in the Kushan empire, and why having a name for something isn’t always a good thing.

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Empires of FaithApril 27, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

Mithra, Mihr, and Zarathushtra

The fourth in a series of weekly instalments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra’, published in March 2017, explores how a rock relief in western Iran, carved during the time of the Sasanian Persian Empire (AD 224-651), has been re-imagined over the centuries.

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Empires of FaithApril 21, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

Mithras – what is there to say?

The third in a series of weekly instalments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra‘, published in March 2017, questions what we can learn from seemingly the most permanent of all Mithraic remains – sculptures carved into the living rock.

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Empires of FaithApril 14, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

Mithras: whose god?

The second in a series of weekly instalments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra‘, published in March 2017, looks at what we can learn about the community of Mithras worshippers in the Roman world through the objects that depict the god.

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Empires of FaithApril 6, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

The Importance of Mithras’ Stare: where to look?

The first in a series of weekly instalments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra‘, published in March 2017, looks at perhaps the most well-known depiction of Mithras – the ‘tauroctony’ – and the peculiar direction of the god’s gaze.

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Empires of FaithMarch 29, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

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