Beck Roger. Mithraism since Franz Cumont

Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. — 1984. — T. II. — Bd. 17. — Teilbd. 4. — P. 2003-2115.I. lntroduction: Cumont's achievement - scope of present survey - historical perspective and major contributions
II. Survey of research on monuments and texts
A. General: the effect of twentieth-century discoveries on the overall picture of the Mysteries
B. Regional survey
1. Syria
2. Commagene
3. Anatolia and the Crimea
4. Egypt and North Africa
5. ltaly
6. Spain, Britain, Gaul
7. Germany
8. Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia
9. Dacia, Moesia, Thrace
10. Greece
C. Gems and Coins
D. Texts
III. The interpretation of the Mysteries
A. Questions, topics, approaches
B. 1. « La forme romaine du mazdeisme »?
2. Early development and spread of the Mysteries - evolution of the iconography
3. The nature of the Mysteries
a) General
b) Myth and meaning - the tauroctony and the banquet
c} Other powers: the torchbearers, the lion-headed god
4. The life of the Mysteries
a) Mithraic structures: the mithraeum and the grades
b) Mithraism and society
C) Mithraism and its rivals
IV. Conclusion