Contents: 1. Ugo Bianchi, Rome, Foreword - 2. John R. Hinnells, London, "Introduction: the questions asked and to be asked" - 3. Closca L. Baluta, Alba Iulia, "La pénétration et la diffusion du mithriacisme en Dacie réfléchies par l'épigraphie" - 4. Roger Beck, Toronto, "In the place of the Lion: Mithras in the tauroctony" - 5. Per Beskow, Lund, "Turtullian on Mithras" - 6. A. David Bivar, London, "Towards and integrated picture of ancient Mithraism" - 7. Ioan P. Couliano, Chicago, "The Mithraic ladder revisited" - 8. Giulia Sfameni Gasparro, Messina, "I misteri di Mithra: religione o culto?" - 9. Richard L. Gordon, Kiel/Norwich, "Mystery metaphor and doctrice in the Mysteries of Mithras" - 10. Alison B. Griffith, Evansville, "The archaeological evidence for Mithraism as an urban phenomenon in Imperial Rome: work in progress" - 11. Howard M. Jackson, Claremont, "Love makes the world go round: the Classical Greek ancestry of the youth with the zodiacal circle in Late Roman art" - 12. Jean Kellens, Liège, "La fonction aurorale de Mithra et la daena 13. Philip G. Kreyenbroek, London, "Mithra and Ahreman in Iranian Cosmogonies" - 14. James R. Russel, Harvard, "On the Armeno-Iranian roots of Mithraism" - 15. Wolf Libeschuetz, Nottingham, "The expansion of Mithraism among the religious cults of the second century" - 16. Luther H. Martin, Vermont, "Reflections on the Mithraic tauroctony as cult scene" - 17. Varbinka Naydenova, Sofia, "Un sanctuaire syncrétiste de Mithra et Sol Augustus découvert à Novae (Mésie Inférieure)" - 18. Panayotis Pachis, Thessalonica, "The cult of Mithras in Thessalonica" - 19. David Ulansey, Boston, "Mithras and the hypercosmic sun" - 20. Helmut Waldan, Tübingen, "Mithras tauroctonus" - Abbreviations - Index of ancient authors.
