title: Initiatur in spelaeo: A Review of Ancient Terminology for Mithraic Cultic Spaces
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metadata.value: Méndez, Israel Campos
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-12-02T20:34:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-12-02T20:34:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Campos Méndez I. Initiatur in spelaeo: A Review of Ancient Terminology for Mithraic Cultic Spaces. Philologia Classica 2023, 18 (2), 246–259. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.208
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48076
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metadata.value: The most common word accepted in Mithraic historiography to refer to places of worship is
  “Mithraeum”. The historical sources, however, offer us a multitude of terms that diverge from
  this expression which could be evoking different realities and could be referring to other kind of
  cultic spaces. In this paper, we have collected all the mentions supported in the epigraphy and
  literary sources, to have a complete vision of all these terms. With these testimonies, we have
  revised the previous interpretations related to the use of these different names. The variety of
  them has little to do with location or period. Still, we propose that this terminological variation
  is related to the consideration that ancient Mithra’s followers had with the moment when they
  erected the cultic space. It is possible to connect the choice of the word “spelaeum” or “templum”
  with the first idea they had of what must be an “original Mithraic cave” if we consider the meaning
  of the verbs used by the dedicators in their inscriptions. The validity of this interpretation
  will allow for a better understanding of the symbolic universe in which the followers of Mithra
  moved, instead of the common acceptance of the modern word “mithraeum”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 18; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mithraism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cave
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Eastern Cults
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: epigraphy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mithraeum
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Initiatur in spelaeo: A Review of Ancient Terminology for Mithraic Cultic Spaces
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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