Planetary gods and planetary orders in the mysteries of Mithras / / Roger Beck.

• Superior document: Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, tome 109
• VerfasserIn: Beck, Roger, 1937-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1988.
• Year of Publication: 1988
• Language: English
• Series: Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain ; t. 109.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (136 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: "With a frontispiece, 5 figures and 6 plates."
• Other title: Preliminary material /; The planets and the grades: the problem of a unique order /; The grade order and exoteric planetary orders: mastery of space and time /; Orders on the monuments: introduction /; Orders in mithraea: Sette Sfere and Sette Porte /; The order of the Bologna relief: the planets and the bull-killing /; Planets and zodiac: the Housesteads birth scene /; The Ottaviano Zeno monument: planetary orders implicit in the row of altars; the snake-encircled figures; the ascent of souls (i); Jupiter, Sun and Saturn /; The planetary order of Contra Celsum 6.22: the ascent of souls(ii); the two revolutions /; Saturn's primacy: the Sun of midnight /; Planetary orders and the zodiac in the Barberini fresco: the structures of genesis and apogenesis; Saturn and the snakeencircled god /; the integrity ofthe Bologna relief /; INDICES /; LIST OF PLATES /; Plates I-IV /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004296662
• ISSN: 0531-1950
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Roger Beck.