- In Gr**** mythology,
maenads (/ˈmiːnædz/;
Ancient Gr****: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the
female followers of
Dionysus and the most
significant members of...
- Euripides' Bacchae,
Dionysus carries out his
dances and
rites with his
bacchants, his priestesses, on Cithaeron.
Oedipus was
exposed on the mountain, while...
- The
Bacchae (/ˈbækiː/; Gr****: Βάκχαι, Bakkhai; also
known as The
Bacchantes /ˈbækənts, bəˈkænts, -ˈkɑːnts/) is an
ancient Gr**** tragedy,
written by the...
-
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...
-
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"...
-
divinity through a
state of
mystic exaltation:
Dionysian orgy
allowed the
Bacchant to
emerge from the 'ego' to be
united with the god in the
ecstatic exaltation...
- soprano, alto Nobles, knights, ladies, pilgrims, sirens, naiads, nymphs,
bacchants; In
Paris version, also the
Three Graces, youths, cupids, satyrs, and...
-
syncretism involving Dionysos and his
bacchants with
Kubera and his Yakshas." in Carter,
Martha L. (1982). "The
Bacchants of Mathura: New
Evidence of Dionysiac...
