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Definition of Bacchants

Bacchants
Bacchant Bac"chant, n.; pl. E. Bacchants, L. Bacchantes. [L. bacchans, -antis, p. pr. of bacchari to celebrate the festival of Bacchus.] 1. A priest of Bacchus. 2. A bacchanal; a reveler. --Croly.
Bacchant
Bacchant Bac"chant, a. Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. --Byron.
Bacchant
Bacchant Bac"chant, n.; pl. E. Bacchants, L. Bacchantes. [L. bacchans, -antis, p. pr. of bacchari to celebrate the festival of Bacchus.] 1. A priest of Bacchus. 2. A bacchanal; a reveler. --Croly.

Meaning of Bacchants from wikipedia

- In Gr**** mythology, maenads (/ˈmiːnædz/; Ancient Gr****: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of...
- The Bacchae (/ˈbækiː/; Ancient Gr****: Βάκχαι, Bakkhai; also known as The Bacchantes /ˈbækənts, bəˈkænts, -ˈkɑːnts/) is an ancient Gr**** tragedy, written...
- Euripides' Bacchae, Dionysus carries out his dances and rites with his bacchants, his priestesses, on Cithaeron. Oedipus was exposed on the mountain, while...
- stage "means simply an ideal female of the Dionysian outdoors, a non-wild bacchant". ****enistic sculpture also includes for the first time large genre subjects...
- was common on the islands and in Anatolia. The members were known as Bacchants, and the rites had an orgiastic character. Linked to this was the last...
- soprano, alto Nobles, knights, ladies, pilgrims, sirens, naiads, nymphs, bacchants; In Paris version, also the Three Graces, youths, cupids, satyrs, and...
- Archaeological park of Baiae. Bacchus Triumphant by John Reinhard Weguelin (1882) A Bacchant holding a thyrsus: Malice by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1899) Cult of...
- love with Proserpin baritone Jupiter, the highest god baritone Mercurius, Jupiter's messenger tenor A Bacchant / Faun tenor Sicilians, nymphs, bacchants...
- painting depicting a hermaphrodite sitting, left hand raised towards an old satyr approaching from behind; a maenad or bacchant brings a love potion....
- frenzied dancing". The mythical female followers of Dionysus, including bacchants and thyai as well as maenads, were said to have sought the "wild delirium"...