Mithras
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Mithras
< Latin < Greek Míthrās < Old Persian Mithra
Example Sentences
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Unlike Jews and adherents of Mithras and Isis, Christians were violently persecuted — and some of Rome’s earliest churches, including St. Peter’s, are martyriums: sites where saints were slain for their beliefs.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
The worship of Mithras was so popular that, some historians have noted, it is easy to imagine the Roman Empire becoming Mithran instead of Christian if Constantine had not converted to the latter faith.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
It was built over a fourth-century church that itself sat atop a temple to the Roman god Mithras.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2016
The wine god’s local cult had installed itself in the 2nd-century Temple of Mithras, less than a mile away, when the soldiers’ god fell out of fashion.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2016
Mithras just wasn’t one of the gods they talked about at Camp Half-Blood.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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