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Comments about The Mithraeum below.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.06.18 - 7:00 a.m. | #
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Thanks for the report. Have been meaning to get to it here relocated Mithraeum since it opened. Gratified that one can now just walk up, so may do it one lunchtime. But not today!
That pair to either side of the tauroctony is not Castor and Pollox. It is a different set of heavenly twins, Cautes and Cautopates, one with torch raised and the other with torch lowered. There are varied interpretations of the Mithraic cosmology: they might represent the spring and the autumn, or the rising and setting sun, or life and death, or all three, or something else.
dg writes: Fixed, thanks.
Andrew | 18.06.18 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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Hey Andrew, the pair it isn't are Castor and Pollux, not Castor and Pollox.
You're welcome.
Rich | 18.06.18 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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I was lucky enough to go to the Mithraeum as part of a recent away day with work. I had no idea what to expect. Quite amazing.
THC | 18.06.18 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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"laptop users may end up wishing to throttle the too-clever-by-half website designers"
Oh my lord! You weren't kidding in the slightest. That deserves an award of some sort for managing to be so crap.
Chz | 18.06.18 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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I visited a few months ago and I agree, it's a superb piece of theatre. Very atmospheric, and well worth a visit.
Cornish Cockney | 18.06.18 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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I visited soon after it opened and thought it diverting for a short visit, but on reflection, I was a little underwhelmed despite the theatrics; if it was genuinely impressive it wouldn't need the dry ice treatment but it makes a good double-bill with a visit to the Roman Amphitheatre beneath the Guildhall Art Gallery.
Frank F | 18.06.18 - 10:30 a.m. | #
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I went to the Mithraeum last bank holiday weekend. Totally underwhelmed. Thank Mithras it's free.
MKIan | 18.06.18 - 12:57 p.m. | #
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Hey, Rich. You are right. Should have linked Castor and Pollux and then I might have got it right!
My apologies. Refund available via the usual channels, in the usual way.
Anderw | 18.06.18 - 1:03 p.m. | #
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Yes, the Tron-style amphitheatre at the Guildhall Art Gallery is well worth visiting too, but only for a short time. Thankfully also free. The art might detain you longer, and the display of historical documents - if you are lucky, they might be showing the City's copy of Magna Carta, or something similarly rare and historic.
Andrew | 18.06.18 - 1:06 p.m. | #
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Oh my word. "This experience is optimized for use with a phone or tablet ... please decrease the width of your browser window until the site appears".
OK ... Ctrl-+ Ctrl-+ Ctrl-+ Ctrl-+
"Please increase the width of your browser window for the optimum experience"
Ok - fx:manually fixed browser width to the correct value and... oh god.
Whoever did that deserves to be named and shamed. Bad website developer. Really bad.
Andrew | 18.06.18 - 5:39 p.m. | #
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Where's my Netscape browser when I need it!
Darren | 18.06.18 - 8:58 p.m. | #
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Have you been to the Roman baths at Bath? Seems like it would be right up your street - and an easy train ride from London.
dg writes: Yes.
Ashley Mills | 18.06.18 - 10:27 p.m. | #
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