MPS inaugurated its series of academic encounters in 2018. The event below marks the starting point of a long-term agenda of research, collaboration, and rigorous scholarly exchange.
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Date and time: 2018-10-01 · to 2018-10-05
Location: Brasília, Brazil
Format: hybrid
Status: past
Guests:
Matteo Comparetti (ISAW, New York); MIguel Ángel Andres Toledo (USAL, Salamanca); Matheus Treuk Medeiros de Araújo (UERJ, Rio de Janeiro); Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto (UFPR, Curitiba)
Inaugural event of the MPS series of academic encounters.
Date and time: 2026-06-12 · 14:30–17:30
Location: to be defined, Brasília, Brazil
Format: hybrid
Status: upcoming
Guests:
Richard Foltz (University of Montreal, Canadá, retired)
Mithra cults figured prominently both in Persian Zoroastrianism and within the Roman army, although scholars disagree regarding possible connections between the two. Since these were poorly documented esoteric traditions their actual beliefs and practices must be reconstructed from a variety of non-textual sources, ranging from archaeology to ethnographic studies of modern-day practices of the Kurds and the Ossetes. Analysis of the available evidence suggests that Mithra may have originated as the principal deity of the warrior class of the prehistoric Aryans.
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