Episode XCIX - Q and A IV
Emperors of Rome
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The Mystery Cult of Mithras
Mithras is a bit weird. He's somebody who seems to have come from the east that the romans adopted. But he was worshipped sort of in these underground spaces. We don't know much about what went on. And i like those native italian gods who ave no clear olympian parallels. They tend to end up obscure, but they would have been very important to the romans therre these vestiges of what was there before the romans came into contact with greeks.
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