Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, information access, and more
Just discovered that Jaime Alvar Ezquerra and his publisher Brill have done something marvellous with Richard Gordon’s translation of his book Romanising oriental gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras (2008). I needed to consult it, and Google books gave me so very little with which to do so. […]
A correspondent reminds me that letter 100 in the Collectio Avellana, a medieval collection of papal letters, is a letter by Pope Gelasius to the senator Andromachus, justifying the abolition of the ancient Roman festival of the Lupercalia. I mentioned it here, but then forgot all about it. By chance another correspondent wrote on a […]
I’ve spent some time working on the security of the Mithras site. This now seems to be working, but we will see. On Saturday I logged out and made sure that every page had some kind of security check. No vandalism occurred yesterday, therefore. Today I added a login page and password. The vandal made […]
I’ve continued to add a few photographs of Mithraic monuments, with their entry in the CIMRM, to the new Mithras site, The Roman cult of Mithras. It’s become increasingly clear that the approach that I have been following with these is not quite right. What I have at the moment is one web-page per monument. […]
It’s remarkable how much one can achieve in a few dedicated days. I’ve managed to get my new Mithras site up and functional, although far from complete. It may be found here. https://www.roger-pearse.com/mithras I don’t think that there is very much more to do to the PHP scripts, which is nice. The content needs to […]
It is now Christmas Eve. A minority of people will be sat at home, in a traditional Dickensian family circle, waiting for Christmas. In rather more households there will be excited children rushing around, and all blessing to them and their harried parents. But for a great many people, including most people who spend their lives […]
Well, that was a day that I intended to spend with Mithras! But a member of staff decided to turn up at 1pm, rather than at 9am, and that put paid to that. However a few interesting stories have emerged in the media today. There is a volcano erupting in Russia and temperatures of -20 C in Moscow on […]
Yesterday I returned to working on my site about the Roman deity Mithras. To my surprise and delight, I found that the code was stable enough to allow me to enter content, and I started doing so, using as a baseline the last reliable version of the Wikipedia Mithras article. I’ve been looking today at the material […]