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This page presents the the EJMS team: Editors:
- Prof. Jaime Alvar
- Prof. Roger Beck
- Prof. José d'Encarnação
- Dr. Richard Gordon
- Dr. Alison Griffith
- Dr. Andreas Hensen Support group
from Huelva University:
- Dr. Fernando Lozano Gómez (coordinator)
- Bella Domínguez Rodríguez
- Prado Ortiz Sánchez
- Teresa Rubio Lara
- David Villalón Torres Webmaster:
- Eng. António Grilo
( ja253@cam.ac.uk )
Jaime Alvar was born in Granada in 1955, Spain. He studied in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid finishing his PHD in 1980. Between 1979 and 1996 he taught at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Between 1996 and 2000 he was Professor of Ancient History in the University of Huelva. Since then he has the Ancient History chair at Carlos III University in Madrid. Between 1981 and 1982 he received a scholarship from the German government (DAAD) at the Institut für Altertumskunde Köln. He spent the academic year 1999-2000 at the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge. Jaime Alvar has dedicated his research activities to the world of Iberian protohistory, pre-Roman colonisations and to the oriental religions in the Roman Empire . He has been the researcher responsible for several projects devoted to the mystery religions financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture. As result of them, he has directed seven PhD theses on ancient religion. He is member of the Scientific Committee of the Magazine "Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne" and Director of the ARYS magazine published by the University of Huelva dedicated to the study of sociology of ancient religions. Currently, he is the Director of the Instituto de Historiografía “Julio Caro Baroja” of Carlos III University, and editor of the Revista de Historiografía .
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
- Los Misterios. Religiones "orientales" en el Imperio Romano , Barcelona, Crítica, 2001.
Papers:
- Alvar, J., "El culto a Isis en Hispania", en La religión romana en Hispania , (Madrid 1981) 309-319.
- Alvar, J., "El culto de Mitra en Hispania" MHA 5 (1981) 51-72.
- Alvar, J., "Matériaux pour l'étude de la formule sive deus, sive dea ", Numen 32.2 (1988) 236-273.
- Alvar, J., "Marginalidad e integración en los cultos mistéricos", en F. Gascó and J. Alvar (eds.), Heterodoxos, reformadores y marginados en la Antigüedad clásica , (Sevilla 1991) 71-90.
- Alvar, J., "Problemas metodológicos sobre el préstamo religioso", Formas de difusion de las religiones antiguas (serie ARYS 3) (Madrid 1993) 1-33.
- Alvar, J., "Los cultos mistéricos en la Tarraconense", en Religio Deorum - Actas del coloquio internacional de epigrafía Culto y Sociedad en Occidente (Sabadell 1993) 27-46.
- Alvar, J., "Los cultos mistéricos en la Bética", Actas del I Coloquio de Historia Antigua de Andalucía. Córdoba, 1988 (Córdoba 1993) 225-236.
- Alvar, J., "Los cultos mistéricos en Lusitania" en Actas del II Congreso Peninsular de Historia Antigua (Coimbra 1993) 789-814.
- Alvar, J., "De la ensoñación iniciática a la vida cotidiana", Modelos ideales y práctica de vida en la Antigüedad Clásica , F. Gascó y E. Falque (eds.) (Sevilla 1993) 129-140.
- Alvar, J., "Diosas y esclavas en los misterios", Diaphora 9, Femmes-esclaves: Modèles d'interprétation anthropologique, économique et juridique. Atti del XXI Colloquio internazionale GIREA. Lacco Ameno 27-29 ottobre 1994 (Naples 1999) 267-279.
- Alvar, J., "Cinco lustros de investigación sobre cultos mistéricos en la Península Ibérica", Gerión , 11 (1993) 313-326.
- Alvar, J., "Integración social de esclavos y dependientes en la Península Ibérica a través de los cultos mistéricos", Religion et anthropologie de l'esclavage et des formes de dépendence. Actes du XXème Colloque du GIREA. Besançon, 4-6 nov. 1993 (París, 1994) 275-293. Go to Top
( rbeck@credit.erin.utoronto.ca )
Roger Beck received his B.A. in Literae Humaniores at the Oxford University in 1961. In
1963 he attained the A.M. in Latin at the University of Illinois. He was Lecturer at the
University of Manitoba between 1963 and 1964. In 1964 Roger Beck started his career at the
University of Toronto, Erindale College and Department of Classics (Lecturer 1964-65, Assistant Professor 1968-74, Associate
Professor 1974-84, Professor 1984-98, Professor Emeritus since 1998). He attained
his Ph.D in Classical Philology at University of
Illinois in 1971 with the thesis "Meter
and Sense in Homeric Verse" (Supervisor: J.J. Bateman). He was appointed to Graduate School and cross-appointed
to Centre for Religious Studies [currently Centre for the Study of Religion] in 1978,
tenure in 1973.
He was Secretary of the Classical Association of Canada between 1977 and 1979. He was
Review Editor of the Phoenix journal between 1978 and Associate Editor between 1982 and
1986.
His current research interests are Mithraism and religion in the Roman Empire; ancient
astrology and astronomy; Petronius and the ancient novel. PUBLICATIONS
- Beck (R.), "Ovid, Augustus, and a Nut
Tree", Phoenix 19 (1965), 146-52.
- Beck (R.), "A Principle of Composition
in Homeric Verse", Phoenix 26 (1972), 213-31.
- Beck (R.), "Some Observations on the
Narrative Technique of Petronius", Phoenix 27 (1973), 42-61.
- Beck (R.), "Encolpius at the Cena",
Phoenix 29 (1975), 271-83.
- Beck (R.), "Interpreting the Ponza
Zodiac, I", Journal of Mithraic Studies I (1976), 1-19.
- Beck (R.), "The Seat of Mithras at the
Equinoxes: Porphyry De antro nympharum 24", Journal of Mithraic Studies 1 (1976),
95-98.
- Beck (R.), "A Note on the Scorpion in
the Tauroctony", Journal of Mithraic Studies 1 (1976), 208 f.
- Beck (R.), "Cautes and Cautopates: Some
Astronomical Considerations", Journal of Mithraic Studies 2 (1977), 1-17.
- Beck (R.), "Interpreting the Ponza
Zodiac, II", Journal of Mithraic Studies 2 (1977-78), 87-147.
- Beck (R.), "Sette Sfere, Sette Porte,
and the Spring Equinoxes of A.D. 172 and 173", in Ugo Bianchi (ed.), Mysteria Mithrae
(Leiden: Brill, 1979), 515-29.
- Beck (R.), "Eumolpus poeta, Eumolpus
fabulator: A Study of Characterization in the Satyricon", Phoenix 33 (1979), 239-53.
- Beck (R.), Davidson (M): "The Mithraic
Relief in Toronto, CIMRM 606", Journal of Mithraic Studies 3 (1980), 185-99.
- Beck (R.), "The Satyricon: Satire,
Narrator, and Antecedents", Museum Helveticum 39 (1982), 206-14.
- Beck (R.), "The Mithraic Torchbearers
and ‘Absence of Opposition’", Classical Views 26, N.S. 1 (1982), 126-40.
- Beck (R.), "Soteriology, the Mysteries,
and the Ancient Novel: Iamblichus Babyloniaca as a Test-Case", in U. Bianchi and M.J.
Vermaseren (edd.), La soteriologia dei culti orientali nell' Impero Romano, EPRO 92
(Leiden: Brill, 1982), 527-40.
- Beck (R.), "Mithraism since Franz
Cumont", Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.17.4. (1984), 2002-115.
- Beck (R.), "Astrology",
"Horoscope", "Star-Worship" The Penguin Dictionary of Religions (ed.
J.R. Hinnells, Harmondsworth, 1984), 52, 152 f., 311.
- Beck (R.), "The Rock-Cut Mithraea of
Arupium (Dalmatia)", Phoenix 38 (1984), 356-71.
- Beck (R.), "Four Dacian Tauroctonies:
Affinities within a Group of Mithraic Reliefs", Apulum 22 (1985), 45-61.
- Beck (R.), "The anabibazontes in the
Manichaean Kephalaia", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 69 (1987), 193-6.
- Beck (R.), "Merkelbach's Mithras",
Phoenix 41 (1987), 296-316.
- Beck (R.), Planetary Gods and Planetary
Orders in the Mysteries of Mithras, Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans
l'Empire romain no. 109. Leiden: Brill, 1988, pp. xiv, 113, 7 plates.
- Beck (R.), "Thus Spake not Zarathustra:
Zoroastrian Pseudepigrapha of the Graeco-Roman World", an Excursus in M. Boyce, A
History of Zoroastrianism, Vol. III (Leiden: Brill, 1991), pp. 491-565.
- Beck (R.), 15 biographical entries on
selected figures in Roman religion, in Who's Who of World Religions, ed. J.R. Hinnells
(London: Macmillan, 1991).
- Beck (R.), "The Mithras Cult as
Association", Studies in Religion 21 (1992), 3-13.
- Beck (R.), "Cosmogony and Cosmology II
— In Mithraism", Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 6, Fasc. 3 (1993), 307-310.
- Beck (R.), "In the Place of the Lion:
Mithras in the Tauroctony", in J.R. Hinnells (ed.), Studies in Mithraism (Rome:
Bretschneider, 1994), 29-50.
- Beck (R.), "Cosmic Models: Some Uses of
Hellenistic Science in Roman Religion", in T.D. Barnes (ed.), The Sciences in
Greco-Roman Society, = APEIRON 27.4 (1994), 99-117.
- Beck (R.), "Dio Cocceianus",
Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 7, Fasc. 4 (1995), 421.
- Beck (R.), "Zoroastrian
Pseudepigrapha", in A New Dictionary of Religions (ed. J.R. Hinnells, Oxford:
Blackwell, 1995), 573 f. (this is a revised and expanded edition of The Penguin Dictionary
of Religions, above, and includes revised versions of my entries on "Astrology",
"Horoscope", and "Star-Worship").
- Beck (R.), "The Mysteries of
Mithras", in J.S. Kloppenborg and S.G. Wilson (eds.), Voluntary Associations in the
Ancient World (London: Routledge, 1996), 176-185.
- Beck (R.), "Astrology",
"Mithras", The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (Oxford: OUP, 1996), 195,
991 f. (also included in The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (1998), 89,
473-5).
- Beck (R.), "Mystery Religions,
Aretalogy, and the Ancient Novel", in G. Schmeling (ed.), The Novel in Antiquity
(Leiden: Brill, 1996), 131-50.
- Beck (R.), "The Mysteries of Mithras: A
New Account of Their Genesis", Journal of Roman Studies 88 (1998), 115-28.
- Beck (R.), "Qui mortalitatis causa
convenerunt: The Meeting of the Virunum Mithraists on June 26, A.D. 184", Phoenix 52
(1998), 335-44.
- Beck (R.), "Ritual, Myth, Doctrine, and
Initiation in the Mysteries of Mithras: New Evidence from a Cult Vessel", forthcoming
in Journal of Roman Studies.
- Beck (R.), "The Astronomical Design of
Karakush, a Royal Burial Site in Ancient Commagene: An Hypothesis", forthcoming in
Culture and Cosmos.
"Apuleius the Novelist, Apuleius the Ostian Householder, and the Mithraeum of the
Seven Spheres: Further Explorations of an Hypothesis of Filippo Coarelli",
forthcoming in Stephen Wilson and Michel Desjardin (eds.), Text and Artifact: Judaism and
Christianity in the Ancient Mediterranean World (provisional title) (Waterloo: Wilfrid
Laurier U.P., 2000).
- Beck (R.), "On Becoming a Mithraist: New
Evidence for the Propagation of the Mysteries", completed for a volume of studies
from the 1996 Religious Rivalries seminar of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, to
be edited by Leif Vaage.
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(jde@ci.uc.pt)José d'Encarnação has graduated in History at the Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa,
University of Lisbon, in January 1970. In 1971-72, he finished, in the National Museum of
Ancient Art (Lisbon), the Course of Keeper of Museums. In that same year he also completed
the Course of Pedagogical Sciences at the Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa. At the University
of Coimbra (in which he is professor since 1976) he got his History PHD, in 1984, in the
field of Pre-History and Archaeology. As University Professor, he achieved the top of his
carreer in 5 June 1991. He has under his supervision the lectures of several classes on
Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, namely History Of Classical Antiquity,
Epigraphy, and respective seminars. He also gives lectures on Social Communication. As
archaeologist, he is responsible, together with Guilherme Cardoso, for the study of the
roman villa of Freiria (S. Domingos de Rana, Cascais) and for the research
project on the roman presence in that county. He is also co-responsible for a research
project with the aim of studying urban evolution of the village of Cascais since the
Middle Ages until our time. He has written more than 200 texts, of which the most
important are referred below. He has organised many conferences, for the most varied
audiences, having already participated in approximately 100 scientific meetings, both in
Portugal and abroad, generally with oral presentation.
He is also journalist, he writes for regional newspapers and as director and presenter of
cultural programmes, he makes part of the Information Department of the Radio Club of
Cascais since 1986.
He was rewarded in July 1994 with the medal of merit of the village of Cascais.
His bibliography is included in the book Personalidades da Costa de Estoril, I
vol.,Cascais 1995, pp. 277-284.
José d'Encarnação is a member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres, of Barcelona,
since October 1997 and member of the Real Academia de la Historia, of Madrid, since
December 1999.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:- Encarnação (J.), Divindades Indígenas sob o Domínio
Romano em Portugal (Subsídios para o seu Estudo), Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda,
Lisboa, 1975.
- Encarnação (J.), Inscrições Romanas do Conventus
Pacensis - Subsídios para o Estudo da Romanização, 2 volumes, Coimbra, 1984.
- Encarnação (J.), Introdução ao Estudo da Epigrafia
Latina. Coimbra, 1979, 1987.
- Encarnação (J.), Roteiro Epigráfico Romano de Cascais, Cascais,
1994.
- Encarnação (J.), Para uma História da Água no Concelho
de Cascais, 1995. De col. com Guilherme Cardoso.
- Encarnação (J.), Estudos sobre Epigrafia,
Coimbra (Livraria Minerva), 1998.
Papers:- Encarnação (J.), "Indigenismo e romanização na
Lusitânia", Biblos 62, 1986.
- Encarnação (J.), "Divindades Indígenas peninsulares:
problemas metodológicos do seu estudo", Estudios sobre Ia Tabula Siarensis, Anejos
de Archivo Español de Arqueologia, IX, Madrid, 1988.
- Encarnação (J.), "Epigrafia romana de Moura", Moura na
Época Romana, Câmara Municipal de Moura, 1990.
- Encarnação (J.), Chapter IV, on demography,
and VI, on the religion during the Roman period for volume I of the Nova História
de Portugal, titled Portugal das Origens à Romanização coordinated by Jorge de
Alarcão, Editorial Presença, Lisboa, 1990.
- Encarnação (J.), "Da invenção de Inscrições romanas pelo
humanista André de Resende", Biblos 67, 1991.
- Encarnação (J.), "A villa romana de Freiria e o seu
enquadramento rural", Studia Historica - Historia Antigua (Salamanca) 10-11 1992-1993
(de colab. com Guilherme Cardoso).
- Encarnação (J.), "L'épigraphie du village à l'extrême
Occident d'Hispania", L'Epigrafia del Villaggio, Faenza, 1993.
- Encarnação (J.), "Arqueologia e Epigrafia, uma
complementaridade a potenciar", Trabalhos. de Antropologia e Etnologia 33 (I-2),
1993.
- Encarnação (J.), "Apostilas epigráficas", Humanitas 46,
1994.
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( michra@gmx.de )
Richard Lindsay Gordon was born on 2 August 1943. He got his first degree at the Jesus
College, Cambridge 1966 in Classical Tripos (Ancient History option). He became
postgraduated at the same institution 1969. He obtained his PHD in 1972 supervised by
Prof. M.I. Finley, under the topic Mithraism in the Roman Empire (unpubl.).
Richard Gordon was a Research Fellow at the Downing College, Cambridge between 1969-70.
Between 1970-79 he was Lecturer in interdisciplinary topics (Ancient Civilisation) at the
School of Modern Languages and European History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
He was Visiting Fellow at the Darwin College, Cambridge between 1979-80. Between 1979-88
he was Senior Lecturer at the EUR, UEA, and since 1988 he is Senior Fellow at the same
institution. Since July 1987 he lives as a private scholar in Germany. Richard Gordon was editor of the Journal of Mithraic Studies (JMS)
between 1975 and 1981. PUBLICATIONS Books: - Gordon (R.) (Editor and trans.),
Myth, religion and society: structuralist essays by M. Detienne, L. Gernet, J-P.
Vernant, P. Vidal-Naquet (CUP 1980 repr. 1986).
- Gordon (R.), Image and
Value in the Graeco-Roman World: Studies in Mithraism and religious art Variorum
Collected Studies series (Aldershot, 1996). 9 reprinted articles. Papers:
- Gordon (R.), "Fear of
freedom? Selective continuity in hellenistic religion", Didaskalos 4, 1972,
48-60
- Gordon (R.), "Mithraism and Roman
society", Religion 2, 1972, 92-121 (repr. in Render unto Caesar: the
religious sphere in world politics, edd. S.Petra Ramet & D.W. Treadgold (Lanham,
Md., 1995), 95-130)
- Gordon (R.), "Franz Cumont and the
doctrines of Mithraism", Mithraic Studies, ed. J.R. Hinnells (Manchester
1975), I, 215-48
- Gordon (R.), "The sacred geography of a mithraeum",
Journal of Mithraic Studies 1, 1976, 119-65
- Gordon (R.), "A new Mithraic relief from
Rome", JMS 1, 1976, 166-86
- Gordon (R.), "A note on the 'Mithraeum'
at Cyrene", JMS 1, 1976, 210-21
- Gordon (R.), "Iconographical notes on
the Pojejena reliefs", JMS 2, 1977-8, 73-78
- Gordon (R.), "The date and significance
of CIMRM 598 [British Museum, Townley Collection]", JMS 2, 1977-8, 148-74
- Gordon (R.) (with J.R. Hinnells), "Some
new photographs of well-known Mithraic reliefs", JMS 2, 1977-8, 198-223
- Gordon (R.), "The real and the
imaginary: production and religion in the Graeco-Roman world", Art History 2,
1979, 5-34
- Gordon (R.), "Reality, evocation and
boundary in the Mysteries of Mithras", JMS 3, 1979-80, 19-99
- Gordon (R.), "Panelled
complications", JMS 3, 1979-80, 200-27
- Gordon (R.), "Aelian's peony: the
location of magic in Graeco-Roman tradition", Comparative Criticism, 9 (ed.
E.S. Shaffer) (Cambridge, 1987), 59-95
- Gordon (R.), "Lucan's Erictho", Homo
Viator (Studies for J. Bramble) (eds. M and M. Whitby, P. Hardie) (Bristol,1987),
231-41
- Gordon (R.), "Authority, salvation and
mystery in the Mysteries of Mithras", J.M.C.Toynbee Memorial Volume,
eds. J. Huskinson, M. Beard, J. Reynolds (Newnham College, Cambridge, 1988), 45-80.
- Gordon (R.), "The moment of death: art
and the ritual of Greek sacrifice": Acts of the XXVIth Congress. for
the History of Art, Washington 11-16 August 1986 [CIHA] ( ed. I. Lavin et al.),
(PennState UP, 1989), 431-37
- Gordon (R.), "From Republic to
Principate: priesthood, religion and ideology"; "The Veil of Power: emperors,
sacrifice and benefaction"; "Religion in the Roman Empire: the civic compromise
and its limits", in M. Beard & J. North (eds.) Pagan Priests (Duckworth,
London, 1990), 179-255
- Gordon (R.), "Roman Inscriptions,
1986-90", Journal of Roman Studies 83 (1993), 131-158 (with Joyce Reynolds,
Charlotte Roueché and Mary Beard)
- Gordon (R.), "Mystery, metaphor and
doctrine in the Mysteries of Mithras" in Studies in Mithraism: Papers associated
with the Mithraic Panel organized on the occasion of the XVIth Congress of the
International Association for the History of Religions, Rome 1990, ed. J. R. Hinnells
(L'Erma di Bretschneider, Rome, 1994), 103-24.
- Gordon (R.), "The healing event in
Graeco-Roman folk-medicine", in Ancient Medicine in its socio-cultural Context,
eds. H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, P.J. van der Eijk, P.H. Schrijvers (Leyden, 1995), 363-76
- Gordon (R.), 14 articles for Oxford
Classical Dictionary³ (1996): Mysteries, Oriental mysteries, Syncretism,
IOMDolichenus, Men, Anubis, Apis, Horus, Isis, Sarapis, Osiris, Egyptian deities, Eunuchs
religious, Vesta
- Gordon (R.), 4 articles for Dictionary of
Deities and Demons in the Bible (Utrecht) (Leyden, 1995, 1999²): Poseidon, Pronoia,
Helios, Anthropos
- Gordon (R.), 14 articles for Der Neue
Pauly, 1-3 (1996-7): Anaitis, Arimaspoi, Belenus [never printed], Brachmanes, Bukoloi,
Caelestis, Cannophori, Daktyloi Idaioi, Dendrophori, Dolichenus, Enyalios, Enyo
- Gordon (R.), "Quaedam veritatis umbrae:
Hellenistic magic and astrology" in: T. Engberg-Pedersen (ed.) Conventional Values
in the Hellenistic World (Aarhus, 1997), 128-58
- Gordon (R.), "Reporting the Marvellous:
Private Divination in the Greek Magical Papyri", in: H. Kippenberg & P.Schäfer
(edd.), Envisioning Magic: A Princeton Seminar and Symposium (Leyden, Brill, 1997),
65-92
- Gordon (R.), Roman Inscriptions,
1990-95", Journal of Roman Studies 87 (1997), 203-40 (with Mary Beard, Joyce
Reynolds, Charlotte Roueché)
- Gordon (R.), "Imagining Greek and Roman
magic," in: The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, B. Ankarloo & S. Clark (edd.) (Athlone, London, 1999), vol. 2, 159-275
- Gordon (R.), " 'What's in a list?':
listing in Greek and Graeco-Roman malign magical texts," in: D. Jordan, H. Montgomery
& E. Thomasson (edd.) The World of Ancient Magic Papers from the first
International Eitrem Seminar, Athens May 1997 (Bergen, 1999), 239-77
- Gordon (R.), "Talking of Magic" ???a??????a (Athens) no. 73 (Dec. 1999), 8-17 (in modern Greek)
- Gordon (R.), 12 articles for Der Neue
Pauly, 6-8 (1998-2000): Kautes-Kautopates, Kotyto, Kureten, Logos, 2 (Zauberformel),
Luna, Ma, Mars, Maskelli-Maskello, Mithras, Molpoi, Molpos
Translation:
M. Clauss, Mithras: Kult und Mysterien ( Munich , 1990) publ. Edinburgh , 2000 (corrected edition)
Articles:
Gordon, (R)., s.v. Kautes-Kautopates; Mithras, I, II; Sol-Helios, Synkretismus: Der Neue Pauly , 6 (1999); 8 (2000); 11 (2001); s.v. ‘Griechisch-orientalische Kulte', ‘Mysterien: Begriffserklärung, Mysterienreligion, 1: Religionsgeschichtlich, Mystagogie/Mystagogische Theologie, 1: Gr.-röm. Antike, Mystik III Geschichtlich, 1: Gr.-röm. Antike', in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart ed. 4, vols. 3 (1999) and 5 (2002); s.v. ‘Mithraism' in: Encyclopedia of Religion ², ed. Lindsay Jones (Chicago 2005) vol. 9, pp.6088-93.
Gordon, (R)., “‘Persaei sub rupibus antri': Überlegungen zur Entstehung der Mithrasmysterien,” in: Ptuj im römischen Reich/Mithraskult und seine Zeit: Akten des intern. Symposion Ptuj, 11-15. Okt. 1999 Archaeologia Poetovionensis 2 (Ptuj, 2001 [2002]) 289-301.
Gordon, (R).,“Interpreting Mithras in the late Renaissance, 1: the ‘ monument of Ottaviano Zeno ' (V.335) in Antonio Lafreri's Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (1564),” in Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies 4 (2004) (illustrated) (18,000 words).
Gordon, (R).,“Trajets de Mithra en Syrie romaine,” Topoi ( Lyon : Maison de l'Orient) 11.1 (2001) [2004], 77-136.
Gordon, (R).,“Small and miniature reproductions of the Mithraic icon: reliefs, pottery, ornaments and gems”, in: M. Martens and G. de Boe (eds) Roman Mithraism: the evidence of the small finds (Archeologie en Vlanderen, Monogr. 4) ( Brussels , 2004), 259-83.
Gordon, (R).,“Ritual and hierarchy in the Mysteries of Mithras,” in: Divinas dependencias, 2 in: ARYS 4 (2001 [2005]) 245-74.
Gordon, (R).,“The ‘ritualised body' in the Capua Mithraeum,” in: P.A. Johnston (ed.), The Cults of Magna Graecia , Symposium Cumanum, June 19-22, 2000 (Texas U.P., 2006) forthcoming.
Gordon, (R).,“Helios Mithras astrobrontodaimôn ? The re-discovery in South Africa of IG XIV 998 = IGVR 125 ,” Epigraphica 68 (2006) 9-48.
Gordon, (R).,“Institutionalised Religious Options: Mithraism”, in: The Blackwell Companion to the Ancient World, 9 : Roman Religion (ed. J. Rüpke) ( Oxford , 2007) forthcoming
Gordon, (R).,“Mystery religions, private cults, and learned magic”, in: The Cambridge Companion to the Religions of Later Antiquity (ed. Annette Reed) ( Cambridge , 2007) forthcoming
Review article: - Gordon, (R.), "Who worshipped Mithras?", Journal of Roman Archaeology 7 (1994), 459-74.
Reviews:
- "Reason and ritual in Greek tragedy: on René Girard and Marcel Detienne", Comparative Criticism 1 (ed. E.S. Shaffer) (Cambridge, 1979), 279-310
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G. Piccottini , Mithrastempel in Virunum (1994), Journal of Roman Archaeology 9, 1996, 424-26
- E. Sauer, The End of Paganism in the North-Western Provinces of the Roman Empire : the example of the Mithras cult (1996), JRA 12, 1999, 682-88
- A. Mastrocinque, Studi sul Mitraismo (Il Mitraismo e la Magia) (1998), CR 50, 2000, 321f
- J
. Shepherd et al. The Temple of Mithras : Excavations by W.F. Grimes and A. Williams (1998), JRA13 , 2000, 736-42
- R. Wiegels, Lopodunum, 2 (2000), Klio 85, 2003, 273-75
- H.D. Betz, The “Mithras Liturgy”. Text, Translation and Commentary (2003), CR 55.1, 2005, 99-100
- A. Schütte-Maischatz & E. Winter, Doliche – eine kommagenische Stadt 2004, JRA 18 (2006)
- L. Bricault, Recueil des inscriptions concernant les cultes isiaques (RICIS) (2005), CR 56.2 (2006) Go to Top
(alison.griffith@canterbury.ac.nz)
Alison Griffith holds a B.A. in Classics and Archaeology from Wesleyan University (1984); an M.A. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan (1989), and a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology (1993) also at the University of Michigan (diss: "The Archaeological Evidence for Mithraism in Imperial Rome"). She has excavated at sites in Italy , Tunisia , Israel , France and Britain . She is a senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury , Christchurch NEW ZEALAND (1997-present). Prior to this she was assistant professor at the Intercollegiate Centre for Classical Studies in Rome (1995-1996) and assistant professor at the University of Evansville (USA) (1992-1996).
Articles:
- Griffith, A.B., “The Archaeological Evidence for Mithraism as an Urban Phenomenon in Imperial Rome : A Work in Progress,” in Studies in Mithraism , John R. Hinnells, ed. (Roma 1994) 125-29
- Griffith, A.B., “Mithraism,” in the Early Church On-line Encyclopedia Initiative (Evansville, IN 1995) ( http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/articles/mithraism.html )
- Griffith, A.B., "A New Mithraeum in Hawarti , Syria ," Electronic Journal of Roman Mithraism 1 (2000) ( http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/ejms/archreports.htm
- Griffith, A.B., “Mithraism in the private and public lives of 4th-c. senators in Rome ,” Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies 1 (2000) ( http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/ejms/papers.htm )
- Griffith , A.B., “Mithras, Death and Redemption in Statius, Thebaid I.719-720,” Latomus 60 (2001) 108-123
- Griffith, A.B., “Cult and the Ancient Urban Landscape: A Case Study of Mithraism and Roman Topography,” in L. H. Martin -P. Pachis (eds.), Theoretical Frameworks for the Study of the Graeco-Roman Religions. Adjunct Proceedings of the IAHR XVIII Congress in Durban , South Africa , August 2000 ( Thessaloniki : University Studio Press, 2003) 67-82
- Griffith, A.B., "Slander thy Neighbour(s): Mithraism's Escape from Invcetive ad corpora ," in C. Deroux (ed.) Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XII ( Collection Latomus v.287, 2005) 423-432
- Griffith, A.B., "Completing the Picture: Women and the Female Principle in the Mithraic Cult," Numen 53 (2006)
- Griffith, A.B., "The 'Modes theory' and Roman Religion: National Catastrophe and Religious Response in the Second Punic War," in L. Martin and P. Pachis (eds), Imagistic Traditions in the Graeco-Roman World (forthcoming)
Review article:
Griffith, A.B., “Reappraising the Roman House,” review of S.P. Ellis Roman Housing ( London : Duckworth, 2002) in Scholia 13 (2004) 142-49 (http:// www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/default.htm )
Reviews:
Wiseman, T.P., The Myths of Rome (Exeter 2004) in Scholia Reviews 15 (2006) n.7 (http:// www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/ )
Ando, Clifford, Roman Religion (Edinburgh 2003) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2004.02.50) ( http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-02-50.htm ) (2392 words)
Bejor, G., Vie Colonnate: Paesaggi Urbani del Mondo Antico . (Rome 2000) in AJA 106 (2002) 39
Baker, R.F. and C.F. Baker III, Ancient Egyptians: People of the Pyramids (Oxford 2001) in Classical Outlook 80.4 (2003) 164
Bradley, P., Ancient Egypt : Reconstructing the Past . ( Cambridge 1999) in History Now 6.2 (2000) 38-39
Sauer, E., The End of Paganism in the North-Western Provinces of the Roman Empire : The Example of the Mithras Cult . (BAR-IS 634) ( Oxford 1996) in AJA 101 (1997) 429
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Andreas Hensen was born in Stuttgart in 1967. He passed the High school examination in
Stuttgart in 1986. He was in military service between 1986 and 1987. Between
1987/88-1992/93 he studied Archeology of Roman Provinces, Anthropology, Ancient History
and History of Art at the Universities of Stuttgart, Freiburg and München. Since spring
1990 he had a scholarship of Bischöfliche Studienförderung "Cusanuswerk". He
did Magister Artium between 1992/1993 with the subject "Das Mithräum im römischen
Vicus von Wiesloch". Between 1993 and 1997 he was researcher on excavations led by
the Department of Archeology in Baden-Württemberg (Karlsruhe) in Wiesloch. He was
graduated in 1997 Graduation with the subject of dissertation: "Der römische Vicus
von Wiesloch (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis). Untersuchungen zu den Ausgrabungen bis zum Jahre
1991". During 1997/98 he drew the concept and organisation of permanent archeological
exhibition in the museum of the city of Wiesloch, in cooperation with the Department of
Archeology. He was employed in the recently founded Central Archive of Archeological
State-Museum of Baden-Württemberg in 1998/99. Since May 1999 he is employed in the
Archeological section of Kurpfälzisches Museum (city of Heidelberg): Collaborator in
research-program (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) about the Roman graveyard in
Heidelberg-Neuenheim.
PUBLICATIONS
- Hensen (A.), Das
Mithräum im Vicus von Wiesloch. Arch. Nachr. Baden 51/52, 1994, 30-37.
- Hensen (A.), Zu Caracallas
Germanica Expeditio. Archäologisch-topographische Untersuchungen. Fundber.
Baden-Württemberg 19/1, 1994, 219-254.
- Hensen (A.), Mercurio
Mithrae. In: W. Czysz u.a. (Hrsg.) Provinzialrömische Forschungen. Festschrift für
Günter Ulbert (Espelkamp 1995) 211-216.
- Hensen (A.), Der römische
Vicus von Wiesloch. In: R. Ludwig u. B. Rabold (Hrsg.) Kultur(ge)schichten –
Archäologie am Unteren Neckar. Arch. Inf. Baden-Württemberg 34 (1997) 27-31.
- Hensen (A.), Eine
römische Spardose aus Wiesloch. Arch. Nachr. Baden 59, 1998, 3ff
- Hensen (A.), Der römische
Vicus von Wiesloch (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis). In: N Hanel/ C. Schucany (Hrsg.)
Colonia-municipium-vicus. BAR Internat. Ser. 783 (Oxford 1999) 83ff.
- Hensen (A.), Archäologie
im Wieslocher „Dörndl" (mit R. Baumeister). Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg
1/1999, 55ff.
- Hensen (A.), Mars mit
Gans. Kunstwerk des Monats Nr. 176. Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg
(Heidelberg 1999).
- Hensen (A.), Die Civitas
Ulpia Sueborum Nicrensium - Studien zu einem Gebietsausschnitt. In: E. Schallmayer (Hrsg.)
Trajan in Germanien – Trajan im Reich. Saalburg-Schriften 5 (Bad Homburg 1999) 247ff.
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Hensen (A.), Mithräum und Grab. Saalburg-Jahrbuch 50, 2000,
87-94.
- Hensen (A.), Tempel des Mithras in Südwestdeutschland. In: Vorträges
des 18. Niederbayerischen Archäologentages (2000) 93-110.
- Hensen (A.), Der Wieslocher Vicus - Eine römische Landstadt. In:
Wiesloch - Beiträge zur Geschichte 2 (2001) 11-26.
- Hensen (A.), Cautes und Cautopates. Kunstwerk des Monats November
2001. Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg (2001).
- Hensen (A.), Der Tod des Mysten. In: Ptuj in the Roman empire.
Archaeologia Poetovionensis 2 (2002) 213-219.
- Hensen (A.), Stichwort "Mithras - Archäologisches". In:
Hoops Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 20 (2002) 103-110.
- Hensen (A.), Stichwort "Mithraeum". In: Lexikon Religion in
Geschichte und Gegenwart. Band 5.4. neubearbeitete Auflage (2002).
- Hensen (A.), Das römische Gräberfeld von Heidelberg-Neuenheim. Archäologische
Nachrichten aus Baden 66, 2002, 3-13
- Hensen (A.), Kurzer Bericht DFG-Projekt-Heidelberg. Archäologie in
Deutschland 3/2002, 73.
- Hensen (A.), Gräberfeld im Campus. Archäologie in Deutschland
1/2003 6-11.
- Hensen (A.), "Das 'zweite' Mithräum von Heidelberg," in M. Martens and G. De Boe (edd.), Roman Mithraism: The Evidence of the Small Finds . Monograph Series of Archaeology in Flanders (2004) 95-107.
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Hensen (A.), "Der "Eiskeller" von Bliesdalheim (mit M. Clauss)," in M. Martens and G. De Boe (edd.), Roman Mithraism: The Evidence of the Small Finds . Monograph Series of Archaeology in Flanders (2004) 355-358.
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Hensen (A.), Stichwort "Wiesloch". In: Neuauflage "Die Römer in Baden-Württemberg" (im Druck).
- Hensen (A.), Die römische Nekropole von Heidelberg - Ein archäologisches Forschungsprojekt. Einblick. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Krebsforschungszentrums (im Druck).
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Hensen (A.), " Der zweite Tempel des Mithras in Neuenheim," Jahrbuch zur Geschichte der Stadt Heidelberg 8 (2003/2004) 129-137.
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Hensen (A.), "Ein Tempel für den Kaiser," Abenteuer Archäologie (Spektrum der Wissenschaft) 3/2005, 48-51.
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Hensen (A.), "Unsagbar, Geheim, Verboten ...Orientalische Gottheiten und Mysterienkulte," in Archäologischen Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg (ed.), Imperium Romanum: Roms Provinzen an Neckar, Rhein und Donau . Große Landesausstellung Baden-Württemberg (2005 ), 217-224.
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( antonio.grilo@inov.pt )
António Grilo is graduated in Informatics and Computer Engineering in 1996 at the
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. He has finished is Master
degree in Electrotecnical and Computer Engineering in 1998, and he has finished
his PhD in Electrotecnical and Computer Engineering in 2004 at the same
institution, where he is now an Assistant Professor. His research is focused on Communication Networks, namely Broadband and Wireless networks,
having several papers published on the subject.
António Grilo took the study of roman civilization as a serious hobby. His main
interest concerns roman religion, specially oriental and mystery cults, possessing
extensive bibliography on the subject.
In 1998 he joined Nova Roma, an Internet
community devoted to the promotion of roman studies. Within Nova Roma, he has built a site
dedicated to the roman presence in portuguese territory. In September 1999 he presented
Nova Roma at the 3rd Congress of Peninsular Archaeology in Vila Real, Portugal. He makes
part of several Internet forums for the discussion of roman religion, namely mithras@egroups.com and ReligioRomana@egroups.com.
In November 1999 he invited Prof. Jaime Alvar and Prof. José Encarnação to start the
Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies (EJMS) as a place for publication of research
material providing free access to any people interested. He is now the webmaster of the
EJMS. He is now the webmaster of the EJMS mirror site at the University of Huelva
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