Cults - Stratford High School
... • In the republican period, the Roman state, staggering beneath defeats suffered at the hands of Hannibal and needing to bolster the faith of its citizens, introduced to Rome the cult of the goddess Cybele, She was the mistress of nature whose numerous rites marked much of the Roman calendar. Her cu ...
... • In the republican period, the Roman state, staggering beneath defeats suffered at the hands of Hannibal and needing to bolster the faith of its citizens, introduced to Rome the cult of the goddess Cybele, She was the mistress of nature whose numerous rites marked much of the Roman calendar. Her cu ...
Tauroctony
The tauroctony refers to a genre of cult reliefs which served as the central icon of the Mithraic Mysteries cult in the Roman world. They depict Mithras, wearing a distinctive phrygian cap, killing a bull by stabbing it in the neck. The name 'tauroctony' is a neologism given to the scene in modern times, probably after the Greek word tauroktonos (ταυροκτόνος, ""slaughtering bulls"").