IN MEMORIAM ROGER L. BECK (1937-2023). HIS LIFE AND IMPACT ON THE STUDY OF ROMAN MITHRAS
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IN MEMORIAM ROGER L. BECK (1937-2023).
HIS LIFE AND IMPACT ON THE STUDY OF ROMAN MITHRAS
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BECK 1976
Beck, R., The Seat of Mithras at the Equinoxes: Porphyry, De antro nympharum 24, Journal of Mithraic Studies 1, 95-98.
BECK 1977
Beck, R., Cautes and Cautopates: Some Astronomical Considerations, Journal of Mithraic Studies 2, 1-17.
BECK 1979
Beck, R., Sette Sfere, Sette Porte, and the Spring Equinoxes of A.D. 172 and 173. In: Bianchi, U. (ed.), Proceedings of the International Seminar on the 'Religio-Historical Character of Roman Mithraism, with Particular Reference to Roman and Ostian Sources'. Rome and Ostia 28-31 March 1978 (Leiden: Brill), 515-530.
BECK 1982a
Beck, R., Soteriology, the mysteries and the ancient novel: Iamblichus Babyloniaca as the test case. In: Bianchi, U./ Vermaseren, M. (eds.), La soteriologia dei culti orientali nell'Impero Romano Atti del Colloquio Internazionale su La soteriologia dei culti orientali nell'Impero Romano. Roma 24-28 settembre 1979 (Leiden: Brill).
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Beck, R., The Mithraic torchbearers and. "absence of opposition"', Classical Views 26/1, 126-140.
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Beck, R., Mithraism since Franz Cumont. In: Haase, W./Temporini, H. (eds.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.17.4 (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter), 2001-2115.
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Beck, R., Four Dacian Tauroctonie: affinities within a group of Mithraic reliefs, Apulum 22, 45-51.
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Beck, R., Merkelbach’s Mithras, Phoenix 41/3, 296-316.
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Beck, R., Planetary gods and planetary orders in the mysteries of Mithras (Leiden: Brill).
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Beck, R., In the place of the Lion: Mithras in the tauroctony. In: Hinnells, J. (ed.), Studies in Mithraism: Papers Associated with the Mithraic Panel Organized on the Occasion of the 16th Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Rome 1990 (Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider), 29–50.
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Beck, R., The Mysteries of Mithras. In: Kloppenborg, J./Wilson, G. S. (eds.), Voluntary Associations in the Ancient World (London: Routledge), 176-185.
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Beck, R., Qui Mortalitatis Causa Convenerunt: The Meeting of the Virunum Mithraists on June 26, A.D. 184, Phoenix 52, 335-344.
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Beck, R., The mysteries of Mithras: a new account of their Genesis, Journal of Roman Studies 88, 115-128.
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Beck, R., Beck on Mithraism. Collected works with new Essays (London: Routledge).
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Beck, R., The religion of the Mithras cult in the Roman Empire: mysteries of the unconquered sun (Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press).
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Gordon, R., The sacred geography of a mithraeum, Journal of Mithraic Studies 1/2, 119-165.
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GORDON 2018
Gordon, R., Reviewed works: Images of Mithra by Adrych, Ph. And Dalglish and The Roman Mithras cult: a cognitive approach by Panagiotidou, O. and Beck, R., Journal of Roman Studies 108, 237-239.
GORDON 2021
Gordon, R., A brief history of Mithraic studies. In: Bricault, L./Veymiers, R./Amoroso, N. (eds.), The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the Heart of a Roman Cult / Le Mystère Mithra. Plongée au cœur d’un culte romain (Musée royal de Mariemont: Morlanwelz), 51-61.
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