La (re)creación del mito de Mitra
Summary: The (Re)creation of the Myth of Mithras In absence of oriental or classical texts referring to a myth related to the god Mithras, scholars are divided in the interpretation of the iconography of the cult in Roman period. Since the pioneer studies of the Belgian scholar Franz Cumont, the...
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Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Departamento de Historia. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente
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HISTORIA ANTIGUA HISTORIA DE ROMA MITOS RELIGIONES ANTIGUAS ICONOGRAFIA TORO Cumont, Franz, 1868-1947 |
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HISTORIA ANTIGUA HISTORIA DE ROMA MITOS RELIGIONES ANTIGUAS ICONOGRAFIA TORO Cumont, Franz, 1868-1947 Alvar Ezquerra, Jaime La (re)creación del mito de Mitra |
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HISTORIA ANTIGUA HISTORIA DE ROMA MITOS RELIGIONES ANTIGUAS ICONOGRAFIA TORO Cumont, Franz, 1868-1947 |
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Summary: The (Re)creation of the Myth of Mithras
In absence of oriental or classical texts referring to a myth related to the god
Mithras, scholars are divided in the interpretation of the iconography of the cult in
Roman period. Since the pioneer studies of the Belgian scholar Franz Cumont, the
dominant interpretation was that the illustrated panels and the tauroctony, bull’s sacrifice by Mithras, were the narratological icons of Mithras’ story. Another research
stream, especially dynamic in the last decades of 20th Century, interpreted the scene
of Mithras killing the bull as a stellar map, all the iconic elements being constellations
or figures related to the planetary world. No less sophisticated is the newest proposal
that identifies all the main scenes (Mithras’ birth from the rock, Mithras carrying the
bull -transitus-, the water miracle, the tauroctony, or even his apotheosis) not as
sequences of a narrative, but illustrations of a unique demiurgic act: the creation of
the world, the beginning of life. My argument in this paper is that from the perspective of the Roman viewer it is very unacceptable to deny the narratological character
of at least of part of the iconography, and thereafter it is necessary to assume the existence of a divine story recognisable by the cultores, even if local iconic preferences
underlined parts of the story or its symbolic meanings. |
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Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Departamento de Historia. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente |
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