Modern scholarship on the origins of Mithras
A correspondent drew my attention to this interesting statement in a current handbook. He also added some glosses (in square brackets) to make it generally comprehensible: Cumont’s [late-19th- and early-20th-century] reconstruction suffered a mortal blow at the first conference of Mithraic studies, held in Manchester in 1971 (GORDON, 1975), and has not been revived since. […]