zum Thema: Antikes Rom und Alter Orient, Altorientalistik

Verwobene Welten: Religiöse Zusammenflüsse zwischen Ost und West im Römischen Reich. Die Kulte von Isis, Mithras und Iupiter Dolichenus. Ed. by Svenja Nagel, Joachim Friedrich Quack, and Christian Witschel > https://mohrsiebeck.com/buch/entangled-worlds-religious-confluences-between-east-and-west-in-the-roman-empire-9783161547300?no_cache=1

Klassiker … Franz Cumont: The Mysteries of Mithra: The Definitive Account of a Crucial Historical Moment when a Colorful Oriental Religion Swept over the Roman Empire > https://www.routledge.com/The-Mysteries-of-Mithra-The-Definitive-Account-of-a-Crucial-Historical/Cumont/p/book/9781138614208

Klassiker … Reinhold Merkelbach: Mithras. Ein persisch-römischer Mysterienkult, Wiesbaden, 1998 > https://zvab.com/buch-suchen/titel/mithras-persisch-r%F6mischer-mysterienkult/autor/reinhold-merkelbach/

Mithras as the “Nachthimmel”, interesting reference here to Maria Weiss http://mithras-kult.de/index2.html just reading on Ehsan Yarshater > https://iranicaonline.org/articles/mithraism

Yarshater seems very cautious overall in the article (…), Mithras as Sun and Nachthimmel seem an original and plausible idea to me.