Step beyond traditional narratives to discover how an Iranian deity transformed into one of the Roman Empire's most famous foreign gods. The Occidental Gaze on Roman Mithras challenges long-standing assumptions about the Roman Mithras cult by investigating the voyage of Miϑra/Mithras from Indo-Iranian roots to the Roman world, revealing how Greco-Roman historiography and intellectual traditions altered the deity to fit classical topoi of Iranian religion and culture. By dissecting iconography, textual evidence, and scholarly lenses from École Iranisante to postcolonial theory, this monograph exposes the mechanisms of ancient Persianism, alterity, and cultural appropriation. Essential reading for specialists and students seeking a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on cross-cultural knowledge transfer and identity construction in the ancient Mediterranean.