All Scholars

Books:

Planetary Gods and Planetary Orders in the Mysteries of Mithras, Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, 109 (Leiden: Brill, 1988); A History of Zoroastrianism, III: Zoroastrianism under Macedonian and Roman Rule, with Mary Boyce and Frantz Grenet (Leiden: Brill, 1991); Beck on Mithraism: Collected Works with New Essays, Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Religion Series (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2004); The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2006; paperback, 2007); A Brief History of Ancient Astrology, Blackwell Brief Histories of the Ancient World Series (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007); The Roman Mithras Cult: A Cognitive Approach with Olympia Panagiotidou (London& New York: Bloomsbury, 2017).

Articles:

“Ovid, Augustus, and a Nut Tree,” Phoenix 19 (1965) 146-52; “A Principle of Composition in Homeric Verse,” Phoenix26 (1972) 213-31; “Some Observations on the Narrative Technique of Petronius,” Phoenix 27 (1973) 42-61; “Encolpius at the Cena,” Phoenix 29 (1975) 270-83; “The Seat of Mithras at the Equinoxes: Porphyry, De antro nympharum 24,”Journal of Mithraic Studies 1 (1976) 95–8; “Interpreting the Ponza Zodiac,” Journal of Mithraic Studies 1 (1976) 1-19; “Interpreting the Ponza Zodiac, II,” Journal of Mithraic Studies 2 (1978) 87-147; “Cautes and Cautopates: Some Astronomical Considerations,” Journal of Mithraic Studies 2 (1977) 1–17; “Sette Sfere, Sette Porte, and the Spring Equinoxes of A.D. 172 and 173,” in Proceedings of the International Seminar on the Religio-Historical Character of Roman Mithraism, ed. U. Bianchi (Leiden: Brill, 1979) 515–30; “Eumolpus poeta, Eumolpus fabulator. A Study of Characterization in the Satyricon,” Phoenix 33 (1979) 239-53; “The Satyricon, Satire, Narrator and Antecedents,” MH 39 (1982) 206-14; “Soteriology, the Mysteries and the Ancient Novel, Iamblichus' Babyloniaca as a Test-Case,” in La soteriologia dei culti orientali nell'impero romano. Atti del Colloquio internazionale, Roma, 24-28 settembre 1979, ed. Ugo Bianchi & Maarten J. Vermaseren (Leiden: Brill, 1982) 527-40; “The Mithraic Torchbearers and Absence of Opposition,” LEC 26 (1982) 126-40; “The Satyricon, Satire, Narrator and Antecedents,” MH 39 (1982) 206-14; “The Mithraic Torchbearers and 'Absence of Opposition’,” Classical Views 26/1 (1982) 126–40; “Mithraism Since Franz Cumont,” ANRW 2.17.4 (Berlin & New York: De Gruyter, 1984) 2001–115; “The Rock-Cut Mithraea of Arupium (Dalmatia),” Phoenix 38 (1984) 356-71; “Four Dacian Tauroctonies: Affinities within a Group of Mithraic Reliefs,” Apulum 22 (1985) 45–51; “Merkelbach's Mithras,” Phoenix 41 (1987) 296–316; “The Anabibazontes in the Manichaean Kephalaia,” ZPE 69 (1987) 193-6; “The Mithras Cult as Association,” in Studies in Religion 21 (1992) 3-13; “Cosmic Models: Some Uses of Hellenistic Science in Roman Religion,” in The Sciences in Greco-Roman Society, ed. Timothy D. Barnes *Edmonton, Alberta: Academic Printing and Publishing, 1994) 99-117; “In the Place of the Lion: Mithras in the Tauroctony,” in Studies in Mithraism, ed. J. Hinnells (Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1994) 29–50; “The Mysteries of Mithras,” in Voluntary Associations in the Ancient World, eds. J. Kloppenborg and G. S. Wilson (London: Routledge, 1996) 176–85; “Qui Mortalitatis Causa Convenerunt: The Meeting of the Virunum Mithraists on June 26, A.D. 184,” Phoenix 52 (1998): 335–44; “The Mysteries of Mithras: A New Account of Their Genesis,” JRS 88 (1998) 115–28; “Apuleius the Novelist, Apuleius the Ostian Householder and the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres: Further Explorations of an Hypothesis of Filippo Coarelli,” in Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson, ed. Stephen G. Wilson & Michel Desjardins (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier U. Press, 2000) 551-67; “Ritual, Myth, Doctrine, and Initiation in the Mysteries of Mithras: New Evidence from a Cult Vessel,” JRS 90 (2000) 145–80; “New Thoughts on the Genesis of the Mysteries of Mithra,” Topoi 11 (2001) 59–76; “History into Fiction: The Metamorphoses of the Mithras Myths,” Ancient Narrative 1 (2001–2) 283–300; “Lucius and the Sundial: A Hidden Chronotopic Template in Metamorphoses 11,” in Metamorphic Reflections: Essays Presented to Ben Hijmans, eds. M. Zimmerman and R. van der Paardt (Leuven: Peeters, 2004) 309–18; “Dancing at the Spirit Gates: A Mithraic Ritual Recovered from Proclus,” in Daimonopylai: Essays in Classics and the Classical Tradition Presented to Edmund Berry, eds. R. B. Egan and M. Joyal. (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Centre for Hellenic Civilization, 2004) 1–6; “Four Men, Two Sticks, and a Whip: Image and Doctrine in a Mithraic Ritual,” in Theorizing Religions Past, eds. H. Whitehouse and L. H. Martin (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004) 87–103; “The Religious Market of the Roman Empire: Rodney Stark and Christianity's Pagan Competition,” in Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire, ed. L. Vaage (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier U. Press, 2006) 233–52; “On Becoming a Mithraist: New Evidence for the Propagation of the Mysteries,” in Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire, ed. Leif L. Vaage (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier U. Press, 2006) 175–94; “Divino quodam stellarum consortio coniunctum...," in Concentus ex dissonis: Scritti in onore di Aldo Setaioli, vol. 1 (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2006) 85–96; “Identifying and Interacting with the 'Others': The Late Antique 'Horoscope of Islam',” in Identity and Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean, eds. Z. A. Crook and P. A. Harland (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007) 195–204; “Ancient and Modern Approaches to the Representation of Supernatural Beings...,” in Chasing Down Religion, eds. P. Pachis and D. Wiebe (Athens 7 Thessaloniki: Barbounakis, 2010); “Ecstatic Religion in the Roman Cult of Mithras,” in Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy...Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson (Leiden: Brill, 2013) 75–89; “Intende, lector: Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel, with Anton Bierl & Marília Pulquério Futre Pinheiro (Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2013); “The Adventures of Six Men in a Boat: The Astral Determinants of a Maritime Narrative in the Anthologies of Vettius Valens,” in The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre, ed. Marília Pulquério Futre Pinheiro, Gareth L. Schmeling, & Edmund Paul Cueva (Eelde: Barkhuis, 2014) 61-7; “‘Star-Talk’: A Gateway to Mind in the Ancient World,” Journal of Cognitive Historiography 1 (2014) 90–7; “Greco-Roman Astrologers, the Magi, and Mithraism” in The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi (Leiden: Brill, 2015) 288–96; The Roman Mithras Cult: A Cognitive Approach, with Olympia Panagiotidou (London & New York: Bloomsbury, 2017).