A Mystery Solved?

The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World  by

David Ulansey

Review by: J. Gwyn Griffiths

The Classical Review, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 1 (1991), pp. 122-124

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  • The Classical Review, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 1 (1991), pp. i-viii+1-286
    • Front Matter [pp.i-viii]
    • Reviews
      • Speech in the Iliad [pp.1-5]
      • The Narrative Voice in Homer [pp.5-7]
      • Trojan Prosopography [pp.7-9]
      • Homer's Man of Pain [pp.9-10]
      • Homeric Hiatus [pp.10-11]
      • The Homeric Hymns [pp.12-13]
      • An Edition of Pindar's Paeans [pp.14-15]
      • The Blindness of Oedipus [pp.15-16]
      • Euripides' Myths [pp.17-18]
      • Readings of Hippolytus [pp.18-20]
      • A New Edition of Aristophanes' Ekklesiazousai [pp.20-21]
      • A Study of Ecclesiazusae [pp.22-23]
      • Herodotus the Historian? [pp.23-25]
      • On Ancient Medicine [pp.25-26]
      • The New Budé of Plato's Symposium [pp.27-28]
      • Demosthenes against Meidias [pp.28-29]
      • Metaphysics Γ [pp.30-31]
      • The Fragments of Aristotle [pp.31-34]
      • The Other Aineias [pp.34-35]
      • Polybius Books X-XI [pp.35-37]
      • Diodorus Book III [pp.37-39]
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      • Tradition and Reality in Lucian [pp.40-42]
      • The Stoical Emperor [pp.42-44]
      • Greek Musical Writings II [pp.45-46]
      • Plethon on Greek Philosophy and History [pp.46-48]
      • The Originality of Menaechmi [pp.48-49]
      • New Translations of Latin Poetry [pp.50-52]
      • Pathos and Structure in the Aeneid [pp.52-53]
      • Aeneas Analysed [pp.54-55]
      • Style and Imagery in the Aeneid [pp.55-56]
      • Reading the Aeneid [pp.56-58]
      • Ninth-Century Manuscripts of the Aeneid [pp.59-60]
      • Ovid's Heroides Englished [pp.60-62]
      • Odi et amo, from Catullus to Ovid [pp.62-63]
      • Seneca's Phoenissae [pp.63-64]
      • De Oratore Continued [pp.64-66]
      • Cicero's Philosophica [pp.66-67]
      • Cicero on Pain and Happiness [pp.67-68]
      • Curtius the Writer [pp.69-70]
      • Columella, Book 12 [pp.70-72]
      • The Germania [pp.72-73]
      • A New Teubner of Tacitus' Histories [pp.74-75]
      • The New Fronto [pp.76-80]
      • More of the Budé Gellius [pp.80-82]
      • The New Loeb Apuleius [pp.83-84]
      • Ammianus on the Empire [pp.84-85]
      • Not Much Cassiodorus [pp.86-87]
      • The Roots of Greek Culture [pp.87-89]
      • Progress and Decay [pp.89-90]
      • Inventing the Barbarian [pp.90-92]
      • Character Studies [pp.92-93]
      • Old Age in Classical Literature [pp.93-95]
      • Decoding the Novel [pp.96-97]
      • Grammarians in Late Antiquity [pp.97-101]
      • Platonism and Mathematics [pp.101-103]
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      • Stoic Political Philosophy [pp.105-106]
      • Hellenistic Philosophy [pp.106-107]
      • Philoponus on Aristotle [pp.108-109]
      • The Criterion of Truth [pp.109-111]
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      • Babylonian Myth and Epic [pp.113-115]
      • Timeless Myths? [pp.115-117]
      • Ancient Priests [pp.117-120]
      • Roman Religion, and Related Topics [pp.120-122]
      • A Mystery Solved? [pp.122-124]
      • Sabazios [pp.124-126]
      • Celtic Religious Art [pp.126-127]
      • Women and Law [pp.128-129]
      • Latin Etymologies [pp.129-130]
      • Hungarian Latin [pp.131-132]
      • Indo-European Takeovers [pp.132-133]
      • Pigeon-Holing the Polis [pp.133-135]
      • Aristocrats and the Polis [pp.135-136]
      • The Motives of Athenian Imperialism [pp.137-138]
      • Dionysius I, Military Leader [pp.139-140]
      • Boiotia [pp.140-142]
      • Ancient Beroeans [pp.142-144]
      • Early Rome [pp.144-145]
      • Rebellious Slaves [pp.146-147]
      • Portraits of Cicero [pp.148-149]
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      • Food Supply in the Roman Empire [pp.151-152]
      • The Equites under the Julio-Claudians [pp.153-154]
      • Romanisation without Tears? [pp.155-156]
      • Urbanisation in Roman Spain [pp.156-157]
      • The Middle Management of the Roman Army [pp.158-159]
      • Before Sexuality [pp.159-161]
      • Greek Sexual Choices [pp.161-162]
      • Maidenhead and Womanhood [pp.162-164]
      • The Greek Way of Life [pp.164-166]
      • The Debate on 'Black Athena' [pp.166-167]
      • Small Writing and Less Reading [pp.168-169]
      • Excavations on Keos [pp.169-171]
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      • Geometric Bronze Horse-Figurines [pp.173-175]
      • Early Corinthian Vase-Painting [pp.176-177]
      • Pottery from Corinth [pp.178-180]
      • The Kiseleff Collection [pp.180-181]
      • Ancient Painting [pp.181-183]
      • Roman Painting - The Early Second Style [pp.183-184]
      • The Actium Monument [pp.185-186]
      • Art and Ideology [pp.186-189]
      • Rome's Desert Frontier [pp.189-191]
      • Mosaics from Spain [pp.191-193]
      • The Material Culture of Roman Britain [pp.193-194]
      • Greek Historiographical Inscriptions [pp.195-196]
      • CEG II [pp.196-198]
      • Inscriptions from Chalkidike [pp.198-199]
      • New Rhodian Inscriptions [pp.199-201]
      • Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity [pp.201-203]
      • P. Oxy. LV-LVI [pp.203-205]
      • Latin Palaeography [pp.206-208]
      • Editing Classical Texts [pp.208-210]
      • Ancient and Medieval Geometry [pp.210-212]
      • The Greek Heritage of the Mezzogiorno [pp.212-213]
      • Parry's Papers [pp.213-214]
      • The History of Classical Scholarship [pp.215-216]
      • Housman at UCL [pp.217-218]
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    • Correction [p.276]
    • Correspondence [pp.277-278]
    • Books Received [pp.279-286]
    • Back Matter