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Mithraism
The Mysteries of Mithras
c.1st – c.4th c. CE · Classical Mediterranean · Extinct · The Roman empire, concentrated on the military frontiers
IV. THE CLASSICAL & IMPERIAL WORLD — c.200 BCE – 500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.80–100 CE First datable Roman evidence.
- c.150–250 CE Peak; mithraea from Hadrian's Wall to the Euphrates, concentrated in army camps, ports and among imperial slaves and freedmen.
- 307 CE Diocletian and colleagues dedicate an altar at Carnuntum to Mithras as protector of the empire.
- c.395–400 CE Mithraea are destroyed, often with deliberate desecration, and churches built over several of them.
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