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La religione mitraica si manifesta nel mondo romano con caratteri tipicamente mediterranei, nonostante l’evidente origine orientale del culto del dio Mitra. I misteri mitraici non sono da considerare un semplice sviluppo di ancestrali credenze, bensì un’elaborazione precipua in un contesto ambientale determinatosi in seguito all’espansione romana. In questo senso la città di Ostia fornisce una fondamentale testimonianza sul piano archeologico per l’alto numero di mitrei rinvenuti, distribuiti in tutti i quartieri della città fino ad oggi noti, e per le numerose attestazioni epigrafiche, utili a meglio definire i tratti storico-sociali delle diverse comunità di fedeli. A quasi settant’anni dal corpus di Giovanni Becatti la pubblicazione di questo volume, che si avvale di una apposita campagna di documentazione e rilievi, permette di rileggere e ridefinire la complessità di questi speciali luoghi di incontro nel segno della “vetusta religio” nella prima colonia di Roma.
The Mithraic religion manifested itself in the Roman world with typically Mediterranean characteristics, despite the evident eastern origin of the cult of the god Mithras. The Mithraic mysteries are not to be regarded as a mere development of ancestral beliefs, but rather as a precipitous elaboration in an environmental context determined by Roman expansion. In this sense, the city of Ostia provides fundamental archaeological evidence for the high number of mithraea found, distributed throughout the city's quarters known to date, and for the numerous epigraphic attestations, useful for better defining the historical-social traits of the various communities of worshippers. Almost seventy years after Giovanni Becatti's corpus, the publication of this volume, which avails itself of a special campaign of documentation and surveys, allows us to reread and redefine the complexity of these special meeting places in the sign of the "vetusta religio" in the first colony of Rome.
roman archaeology; ancient Ostia; late antiquity; ancient religion; mithraism; mithraea
roman archaeology; ancient Ostia; late antiquity; ancient religion; mithraism; mithraea
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