Host Timo Epping of the ‘Oudheid’ podcast delved into the world of the mystery cults with Prof. Dr Lucinda Dirven from the Centre for Textual, Historical, and Systematic Studies of Judaism and Christianity at Radboud University, with a special focus on Mithras! After all, what do we actually know about ‘mystery cults’? What makes the god Mithras and the famous mithraea, found throughout the Roman Empire, so fascinating... and controversial?
If you’d like to listen to the full episode, you can do so on Spotify.