What were the similarities between Christianity and other 'mystery cults' like Mithraism? Did they influence each other, and if so, how? Suppose that we view the Roman empire of the first four ...

And centuries after even the conversion of Constantine, we find endowments to liturgies, to mystery cults, to different Egyptian and Greco-Roman gods. Paganism continues on even after the ...

“These were mystery cults, so what they did remains a mystery ... insights into what worship of Dionysus, also known as the Roman god Bacchus, entailed. Wine, of course, was central to these ...

In antiquity, various mystery cults existed, not only with regard to ... Pompeii was an ancient Roman city near modern-day ...

The final stages of the investigation saw the team reach the Roman level — some ten feet ... have often been linked with fertility and mystery cults and the worship of gods such as Mithraw ...

While the surviving altar stone does not bear any inscriptions, such underground rooms have long been linked with fertility and mystery cults ... observance during the Roman occupation between ...