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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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In the Cave of Mysteries: Analyzing Ritual Space within the Roman Cult of Mithras through the examples of Santa Prisca, Walbrook, and Carrawburgh

Norberg, Adam January 2016 (has links)
The Mysteries of Mithras, dedicated to the eponymous Persian divinity, was one of several mystery cults of the ancient world. It flourished during the second and third centuries CEthroughout the Roman Empire, but with special frequency in Italy and the frontier provinces along the Rhine and Danube. Those initiated into the Mysteries met in special cult rooms or complexes knownto themas "caves", but which in modern research are most commonly referred to as mithraea(s. mithraeum). Their defining features are a central aisle flanked by podiawith a cult niche at the far end, typically displaying the bull-slaying Mithras. Since the late 19thcentury, the research of the cult has traditionally concerned itself with issues regarding the cult'sorigins as well as its doctrines and beliefs. However, it has been noted that this traditional approach includes an undervaluing of both the role of ritual within the Mysteries and the design of the mithraeumwith regards to the enacted rituals.By instead focusing on these shortcomingsthe present study will suggest a practice-oriented way of viewing the role of ritual within the cultand how this might have related to the physical space of the mithraeum.
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Le dieu Sol dans l’empire romain des antonins à Julien l’Apostat. Conventions iconographiques, lecture symbolique et portée politique / The Sun god in the Roman Empire from the Antonines to Julian the Apostate. Iconographic conventions, symbolic and political reading

Romagnan, David 11 January 2014 (has links)
Le dieu Sol, personnification de l’astre du jour, est documenté à Rome et en Italie bien avant l’avènement de l’empire. Dieu longtemps secondaire, ce n’est que durant l’Antiquité tardive qu’il gagne en importance, mais jamais au point de supplanter Jupiter et de devenir la divinité suprême. Cette étude a pour but d’offrir une approche renouvelée de l’interprétation de son image, en mettant en valeur la constance de son iconographie, l’uniformité des messages qui lui sont associés, son importance croissante dans l’idéologie politique impériale, et ensuite de les expliquer et de les réintégrer dans une perspective plus globale du IIe au IVe siècle. Cette présente thèse a ainsi pour but d’étudier les représentations du dieu Sol, à la fois personne divine et personnification de l’astre diurne, puis d’en déduire la nature du pouvoir cosmique du dieu, notamment par l’étude des documents dans lesquels il est mis en relation directe ou indirecte avec d’autres divinités, et de mettre en relief la spécificité de l’utilisation de l’image du dieu Sol dans un contexte impérial. / The Sun deity was documented in Rome and in Italy well before the advent of the Empire. Considered secondary for a long time, this god’s importance grows only during the late Antiquity.This study aims at offering a renewed approach of its image by emphasizing the constancy of its iconography, the uniformity of the messages associated to it, and its increasing importance in the imperial political ideology which we are to explain and place in a more global perspective from the 2nd to the 4th century.Within this thesis we will study the representations of the Sun deity, as a god and as the personification of the sun. From the analysis of its documented relationship to other divinities we will establish its cosmic power and the particular use of its image in an imperial context.
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Mithra et le pouvoir impérial romain de Néron à Julien II / Mithras and the Roman imperial Power from Neron to Julian the Apostate

Rallet, Jean-Marie 09 December 2010 (has links)
La relation qu’entretint la divinité mithriaque avec le pouvoir impérial romain fut longtemps négligée du fait de la rareté des sources directes, ne donnant lieu, le plus souvent, qu’à quelques lignes dans les ouvrages généraux consacrés à Mithra. Si le mithriacisme romain fut avant tout un culte à mystères, à ses origines, il n’était pas que cela. Son succès en Perse reposa d’abord sur une manifestation publique utile au pouvoir politique, dont le plus auguste témoignage est Persépolis. Assurément, le mithriacisme romain fut étroitement lié à ses racines perses. Souvent niée, parfois minorée, cette origine fut au cœur d’une ouverture doctrinale des mystes ce qui explique l’hellénisation philosophique du mithriacisme et prépara, plus tard, le terrain du succès politique du christianisme. La cosmogonie mithriaque influença aussi mythes, cultes et philosophies gréco-romaines. Dès lors, à Rome, la tendance du mithriacisme à sortir du cadre mystérique pour mieux s’attacher au pouvoir apparaissait logique. Plus lisible aussi, fut la proximité cultuelle de Cybèle/Mithra avec le couple Anâhitâ/Mithra dont nous avons démontré la réalité jusqu’au Phrygianum Vaticanum. Parallèlement la fusion de Mithra et de la figure de Sol invictus, origine de la mutation de la relation qu’entretint le pouvoir romain avec Mithra devenait indéniable. Seuls Aurélien et Julien correspondirent véritablement aux critères élevés de la morale mithriaque. Mais ils ne pouvaient à eux seuls inverser un mouvement devenu inéluctable. Le IVe siècle apparaît alors, dans l’histoire mouvementée de la religion romaine, comme le tournant dramatique qui mit fin aux espérances des mithriastes de l’Occident. / The relationship between the mithraic divinity and Roman imperial power has long been neglected because of the scarcity of direct sources, only allowing for rare lines in general works devoted to Mithras. If Roman mithraism was indeed a religion of mysteries at its origins, it was not limited to that. Its success in Persia was above all based on a public demonstration useful to those holding political power, whose most majestic testimony is Persepolis. Undoubtedly, Roman mithraism was closely linked to its Persian roots. Often denied, sometimes underestimated, this origin explains followers’ openness towards other doctrinal influences, which led to the philosophical hellenization of Mithraism and later laid the groundwork for the political success of Christianity. Mithraic cosmogony also influenced Greco-Roman myths, cults and philosophies. From that time on, in Rome, the tendency of mithraism to go beyond the mysteric framework in order to strengthen its link to political authority appeared logical. We also demonstrated that the worship of Cybele/Mithra was associated with that of Anâhitâ/Mithra up to the Phrygianum Vaticanum. In parallel, the fusion of Mithra and the figure of Sol invictus, at the origin of the evolution of the relationship between Roman imperial authority and Mithras, became undeniable. Only Aurelian and Julian the Apostate, corresponded truly to the exacting criteria of mithraic morals. But they could not alone reverse a movement that had become inescapable. The fourth century appears then, in the turbulent history of Roman religion, as the dramatic turning point which put an end to the hopes of western mithriasts.

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