Prompt topic:
Discuss the significance of art with respect to the mysteries of Dionysius and/or Mithras.
You may focus on (a) the role played by art in religious cult or (b) art as a source for our knowedge of religious cult.
Of possible relevance are the frescoes from the Villa of Mysteries: http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/timelines/rome/empire/vm/villaofthemysteries.html (see Meyer pp 63-64) and the bas-relief from the Mithraeum in Heddernheim, Germany: http://www.mithraeum.eu/monumenta/heddernheim_tauroctony (see Meyer pp 200-201).

Please quote only from Burkert, Ancient Mystery Religions, ch. 4 (B) and Meyer, 63-65, 93-99, 199-201.
Don’t quote outside sources!!

Please just go straight into the topic and your thesis. There is no need to make an introduction or a summary of the book.

Reading requirements:
–Burkert, Ancient Mystery Religions, ch. 4 (B)
–Meyer, 63-65, 93-99, 199-201