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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: cult of Mithras in late antiquity
    sub title: development, decline and demise ca. A.D. 270-430
  name:
    name part: Walsh, David
    name part: (Lecturer in Classical and Archaeological Studies)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 145 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
  abstract: In 'The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity,' David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult was violently persecuted out of existence by Christians, Walsh demonstrates that the cult's decline was a far more gradual process that resulted from a variety of factors. He also challenges the popular image of the cult as a monolithic entity, highlighting how by the 4th century Mithras had come to mean different things to different people in different places.
  note: by David Walsh.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [128]-137) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Mithras (Zoroastrian deity)
    topic: Cult
  subject:
    topic: Mithraism
  classification: BL1585 .W335 2019
  classification: 299/.15
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Late antique archaeology. v. 2
      part name: Supplementary series
  identifier: 9789004380806
  identifier: 9004380809
  identifier: 2018037207
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180809
    record change date: 20190718163409.0
    record identifier: in00004075305