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."

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Roger Beck -- The planets and the grades: the problem of a unique order / Roger Beck -- The grade order and exoteric planetary orders: mastery of space and time / Roger Beck -- Orders on the monuments: introduction / Roger Beck -- Orders in mithraea: Sette Sfere and Sette Porte / Roger Beck -- The order of the Bologna relief: the planets and the bull-killing / Roger Beck -- Planets and zodiac: the Housesteads birth scene / Roger Beck -- 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 / Roger Beck -- The planetary order of Contra Celsum 6.22: the ascent of souls(ii); the two revolutions / Roger Beck -- Saturn's primacy: the Sun of midnight / Roger Beck -- Planetary orders and the zodiac in the Barberini fresco: the structures of genesis and apogenesis; Saturn and the snakeencircled god / Roger Beck -- the integrity ofthe Bologna relief / Roger Beck -- INDICES / Roger Beck -- LIST OF PLATES / Roger Beck -- Plates I-IV / Roger Beck.