(October 1, 2012 at 11:19 am)Minimalist Wrote: In the Rome series on HBO one of the worst mistakes they made was the scene were "Atia" is bathed in the blood of the bull. Women were barred from Mithraic rites. Also, the Mithraic cult had not caught on in Rome during the first century BC - although they certainly knew about it - it was in the first century AD that Mithraism morphed into Sol Invictus.
Actually she was being initiated into the cult of Cybele not that of Mithras.
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