{"id":6708,"date":"2011-06-15T03:39:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T02:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2011-06-15T03:39:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T02:39:41","slug":"ambrose-of-milan-on-mithras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2011\/06\/15\/ambrose-of-milan-on-mithras\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambrose of Milan on Mithras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been going through Cumont&#8217;s <em>Textes et Monumentes<\/em> and adding material from it to my page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tertullian.org\/rpearse\/mithras\">literary sources for Mithras<\/a>.\u00a0 One rather interesting snippet appeared only in a footnote, and was\u00a0a quotation from Ambrose of Milan&#8217;s letters (which, fortunately, I have online), addressed to the emperor Valentinian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It seems that Ambrose knew so little about the cult of Mithras, in the late 4th century, that he supposed the deity to be female, and a synonym for Venus!\u00a0 Cumont comments (correctly, I suspect) that Ambrose is simply borrowing a line from Herodotus.\u00a0 But it does tell us that the cult had vanished from public view at this date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going through Cumont&#8217;s Textes et Monumentes and adding material from it to my page of literary sources for Mithras.\u00a0 One rather interesting snippet appeared only in a footnote, and was\u00a0a quotation from Ambrose of Milan&#8217;s letters (which, fortunately, I have online), addressed to the emperor Valentinian. It seems that Ambrose knew so little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-world","tag-mithras"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}