Book Review: “Mithras-Orion: Greek Hero and Roman Army God”

A window into the mysteries at the end of Rome

Tauroctony at the Hall of Animals, Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy: CIMRM 548 (image: Carole Raddato)

Anybody with some baseline knowledge on the Roman Cult of Mithras will know that the central problem in the study of the cult today concerns the identity of Mithras himself. And yet, for several decades from the start of the 20th century, this problem was thought to have been firmly put…