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https://religioacademici.wordpress.com/ ... ww4c7V2shQRoman religion by Csaba Szabó
Mithriaca: 2010-2025April 20, 2023
In 2008 I was hesitating on my future, as a student: what should I study, what are the most interesting parts of history, I would like to reseach? Numerous professors were trying to push me to Hungarian history, especially Renaissance history, but my devotion towards antiquity and Roman archaeology and religion was already established. I was interested also in the reception of antiquity, this field remained also among my favourites, but an accidental archaeological excavation in Porolissum changed my mind: a German team promissed us, that we will excavate in Porolissum (Dacia, Romania today) a mithraeum inside the Roman auxiliary fort. This would have been a highly unusual, exceptional case and as I was already suspicious in this issue (it turned out to be a cisternium), I read all I could on Roman Mithras in 2009-2010 and wrote my BA thesis on the cult of Mithras in Sarmizegetusa, contextualising the material in a broader historical and religious context of the province and beyond. I used the first time in this period in Romania the books of Jörg Rüpke, who will become my PhD supervisor few years later: a dream I could never even imagine in 2009. After 15 years of studying this cult (mostly Dacia and some case studies in the Danubian provinces) in 2025 I was honored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to start a research group focusing on the cult of Roman Mithras in the Danubian provinces (2025-2030)
Here are my book chapters, studies and reviews on Roman Mithras published in the period of 2010-2025.
Nel 2008 ero indeciso sul mio futuro da studente: cosa avrei dovuto studiare, quali erano gli aspetti più interessanti della storia, su cui avrei voluto fare ricerca?
Numerosi professori cercavano di spingermi verso la storia ungherese, in particolare quella rinascimentale, ma la mia passione per l'antichità, l'archeologia e la religione romana era già consolidata. Ero interessato anche alla ricezione dell'antichità, un campo che rimaneva tra i miei preferiti, ma uno scavo archeologico casuale a Porolissum mi fece cambiare idea: una squadra tedesca ci promise che avremmo scavato a Porolissum (oggi Dacia, Romania) un mitreo all'interno del forte ausiliario romano.
Sarebbe stato un caso del tutto insolito ed eccezionale e, poiché ero già sospettoso sulla questione (si rivelò essere un cisternium), lessi tutto quello che potei sul mitra romano nel 2009-2010 e scrissi la mia tesi di laurea triennale sul culto di Mitra a Sarmizegetusa, contestualizzando il materiale in un contesto storico e religioso più ampio della provincia e oltre.
Ho utilizzato per la prima volta in questo periodo, in Romania, i libri di Jörg Rüpke, che diventerà il mio supervisore di dottorato qualche anno dopo: un sogno che non avrei mai potuto nemmeno immaginare nel 2009.
Dopo 15 anni di studio di questo culto (principalmente in Dacia e con alcuni casi di studio nelle province danubiane), nel 2025 ho avuto l'onore, da parte dell'Accademia Ungherese delle Scienze, di fondare un gruppo di ricerca incentrato sul culto di Mitra romano nelle province danubiane (2025-2030).
Ecco i capitoli dei miei libri, gli studi e le recensioni su Mitra romano pubblicati nel periodo 2010-2025.
Dacia and the Cult of Mithras. In: Mithras Reader: Journal of Greek, Roman and Persian Studies, Vol III., London, 2010, 84-99.
Mithras – un zeu antic si modern. In: Trifescu, Valentin (ed.), Confulente si particularitati europene. Cluj, 2010, 137–146. [Mithras: an ancient and modern divinity]
Searching for the lightbearer: notes on a Mithraic relief from Dragu. In: Marisia, XXXII, 2012, 135–145.
Cultul lui Mithras: itinerarul zeului misterelor. In De Antiquitate 4, 2012, 54-77.
Micro-regional Manifestation of a Private Cult. The Mithraic Community in Apulum. In: Moga, Iulian (ed.), Angels, demons and representations of Afterlife within the Jewish, Pagan and Christian Imagery. Antiqua et Mediaevalia. Iasi, 2012, 43 – 73.
Comunitatea mithraica din Apulum: manifestari ale cultului. In: Petan, Aurora – Batranoiu, Raluca (ed.), Arheologie si Studii Clasice vol. II., Dacica 2012, 125 – 156.
The Mithraic statue of Secundinus from Apulum. In: ReDiva I., 2013, 45 – 65.
Monumente sculpturale mithraice din Apulum, De Antiquitate 6, 2013, 32-46.
Pantheon journal. Nr.7/1. In: Ephemeris Napocensis XXIII. 2013, 369-371.
Notes on the Mithraic small finds from Sarmizegetusa. In: Ziridava, 28, 2014, 135-148.
Mithras rediscovered. Notes on the CIMRM 1938 (with George Bounegru, Victor Sava). In: Ziridava 28, 2014, 149-156.
Sicoe, Gabriel, Mithräischen Steindenkmäler aus Dakien. In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014. 10. 56.
A nemzetközi Mithras kutatás legújabb eredményei. Ókor folyóirat XIII. évfolyam, 4. szám. (2014), 54 – 60.
Mithras rediscovered II. Further notes on CIMRM 1938 and 1986. In: JAHA 2, 2015, 67-73.
Notes on a new Cautes statue from Apulum. In: Archaeologisches Korrespondenzblatt 2/2015, 237-247.
The cult of Mithras in Apulum: communities and individuals. In: Zerbini, Livio (ed.), Culti e religiositá nelle province danubiane”, 2015, 407-422.
Notes on a new Mithraic inscription from Dacia. (with I. Boda & C. Timoc). In: Mensa Rotunda Epigraphica, Cluj Napoca, 2016, 91-104.
Mithras kultusza Daciában. Művelődés 70, 2017, 26-29.
The material evidence of the Roman cult of Mithras in Dacia. CIMRM Supplementum of the province, Acta Antiqua, 58, nr. 1-2, 2018, 325-357.
Csaba Szabó, Sanctuaries in Roman Dacia: materiality and religious experience, Archaeopress, Oxford, Roman Archaeology Series 49, 2018, 98-120.
Reinterpreting Mithras. A very different account, Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69, 2018, 211-216.
Understanding Roman Mithras. Notes on Three New Books. Review of Adrych, Philippa, Bracey, Robert, Dalglish, Dominic, Lenk, Stefanie & Wood, Rachel (2017), Images of Mithra; Mastrocinque, Attilio (2017), The Mysteries of Mithras; and Panagiotidou Olympia & Beck, Roger (2017), The Roman Mithras cult, ARYS 16, 2018, 469-479.
Sacralised spaces of Mithras in Roman Dacia. Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 72,1, 2021, 55-65.
Mithras in Apulum. Between local and universal. In: L. Bricault, R. Veymiers & N. Amoroso (éd.), The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the Heart of a Roman Cult / Le Mystère Mithra. Plongée au cœur d’un culte romain, Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, 2021, 343-349.
Archaeology of a mithraeum: the case of Caesarea Maritima. Cercetări Arheologice 28/1, 2021, 325-330.
The reception of Roman Mithras in Transylvania in the 18 th -19 th century, La Revista de Historiografía (RevHisto), 37, 2022, 249-271.
Review: Bricault (L.), Roy (P.) Les cultes de Mithra dans l’Empire romain. 550 documents présentés, traduits et commentés. Pp. 636, 272 black and white photos, plans and maps. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2021, Classical Review, 2022.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X2200107XCsaba Szabó, Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces: Space Sacralisation and Religious Communication during the Principate (1st–3rd century AD), Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2022, 176-182.
Csaba Szabó, Miruna Libiță-Partică, Ioan Muntean, Mithras exhibited. Perspectives of sensory museology in Mithraic contexts, Cercetări Arheologice, Vol. 30.2, pag. 737-762, 2023, doi:
https://doi.org/10.46535/ca.30.2.19Csaba Szabó, The mithraeum from Colonia Sarmizegetusa: on the limits of materiality of religion. In: Inga Vilogorac Brčić, Gabrielle Kremer and Aleksandra Nikoloska (eds.), Contextualizing “Oriental” cults. New Lights on the Evidence between the Danube and the Adriatic, Zagreb, 2024, 281-308.
Csaba Szabó, In memoriam Roger L. Beck. His life and impact on the study of Roman Mithras, Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 11, nr. 1, 2024, 145-149.
Mithras sanctuaries in the Danubian provinces and their potential for tourism. Hungarian Archaeology 13 : 3 pp. 1-9. , 9 p. (2024)
Mithras-szentélyek és turisztikai hasznosíthatóságuk a dunai provinciákban, Magyar Régészet 13 : 3 pp. 1-9. , 9 p. (2024)
Manfred Clauss and the study of Roman Mithras in the 21st century, Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 12, nr. 2, 2025, 287-290.
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Vulci mithraeum, 2016
Mithraeum III, Poetovio in 2022
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