Book Review: “Mithras-Orion: Greek Hero and Roman Army God”
A window into the mysteries at the end of Rome
9 min readMay 10
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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…