Episode 202 - Roman reverence at the Temple of Mithras
The English Heritage Podcast
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The Seven Grades of Mithrasm
There's seven orders or grades and they're mentioned in a letter of Jerome who lived in the second half of the fourth and into the fifth century. We have two literary sources about the initiation as well as one source which has depictions of the initiation ceremonies. Knowing the names of the grades with these pictures means you can kind of try to work out which ceremony is which but we don't know, they do say don't know,. They're picked to tell the thousand words but you can't always tell great details.
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