{"id":9292,"date":"2018-11-05T13:20:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9292"},"modified":"2019-03-26T17:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:55:17","slug":"david-walsh-late-antiquity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/11\/05\/david-walsh-late-antiquity\/","title":{"rendered":"David Walsh publishes on late antiquity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/walsh.html\">Dr David Walsh<\/a>, Lecturer in Classical &amp; Archaeological studies in the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, has published a book entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/title\/34488\"><em>The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity Development: Decline and Demise ca. A.D. 270-430<\/em><\/a> (Brill, October 2018).<\/p>\n<p>David has published articles on the cult of Mithras and on the fate of temples in the Roman provinces of Noricum and Pannonia and, in\u00a0<em>The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity,<\/em> he explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why, by the early 5th century, the cult had completely disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult was violently persecuted out of existence by Christians, David Walsh demonstrates that the cult\u2019s decline was a far more gradual process that resulted from a variety of factors. He also challenges the popular image of the cult as a monolithic entity, highlighting how by the 4th century Mithras had come to mean different things to different people in different places.<\/p>\n<p>This publication is part of a supplementary series on Late Antique Archaeology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr David Walsh, Lecturer in Classical &amp; Archaeological studies in the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, has published a book entitled The Cult of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/11\/05\/david-walsh-late-antiquity\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":10069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9292"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10183,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions\/10183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}