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Images of Mithra (Hardcover)
Philippa Adrych, Robert Bracey, Dominic Dalglish, Stefanie Lenk, Rachel Wood; Edited by …
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Discovery Miles 20 240
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With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second
millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman
Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of
southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium
AD. Even today, this name has a place in Yazidi and Zoroastrian
religion. But what connection have Mihr in Persia, Miiro in Kushan
Bactria, and Mithras in the Roman Empire to one another? Over the
course of the volume, specialists in the material culture of these
diverse regions explore appearances of the name Mithra from six
distinct locations in antiquity. In a subversion of the usual
historical process, the authors begin not from an assessment of
texts, but by placing images of Mithra at the heart of their
analysis. Careful consideration of each example's own context,
situating it in the broader scheme of religious traditions and
on-going cultural interactions, is key to this discussion. Such an
approach opens up a host of potential comparisons and
interpretations that are often side-lined in historical accounts.
What Images of Mithra offers is a fresh approach to the ways in
which gods were labelled and depicted in the ancient world. Through
an emphasis on material culture, a more nuanced understanding of
the processes of religious formation is proposed in what is but the
first part of the Visual Conversations series.
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