The Avestan Hymn to Mithra by

The Avestan Hymn to Mithra

University of Cambridge Oriental Publications

with Ilya Gershevitch (Translator)

376 pages missing pub info (editions)

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The Avestan Hymn to Mithra, written in the fifth century BC, is the one extensive, ancient literary record of the attributes, companions and cult of the Iranian god whose worship spread, five or six centuries later, as far as Britain. Dr Gershevit...

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