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Definition of Maenads

Maenad
Maenad M[ae]"nad, n. [L. Maenas, -adis, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? to rave.] 1. A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus. 2. A frantic or frenzied woman.

Meaning of Maenads from wikipedia

- group of maenads also kill Orpheus, when he refuses to entertain them while mourning his dead wife. In ceramic art, the frolicking of Maenads and Dionysus...
- Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Maenad, after the maenads, female followers of Dionysus in Gr**** mythology: HMS Maenad (1915) was an Admiralty M-class...
- eating of the raw flesh of the one dismembered). It is ****ociated with the Maenads or Bacchantes, followers of Dionysus, and the Dionysian Mysteries. Examples...
- In Gr**** mythology, Eurypyle (Ancient Gr****: Εὐρυπύλην) was a maenad. She was a follower of Dionysus and was killed by Morrheus. Nonnus, 30.222 Nonnus...
- the daughter of Cadmus, was a princess of Thebes and the queen of the Maenads, followers of Dionysus (also known as Bacchus). Agave was the eldest daughter...
- HMS Maenad was a reciprocating engine-powered Algerine-class minesweeper built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She survived the war and...
- Williamstown. It depicts a group of maenads waking up in the market of Amphissa, after a night of debauchery. The maenads were, in Ancient Greece, women who...
- Euripides wrote that honey dripped from the thyrsos staves that the Bacchic maenads carried. The thyrsus was a sacred instrument at religious rituals and fêtes...
- the Maenads (メナード, Menado), two priestesses who guard a shrine in Elysion and escaped the Dead Moon Circus's curse by falling asleep. The Maenads eventually...
- such as HERESIES. Maenad ceased publication after a few years. It has been said that the periodical's title was inspired by the Maenads from Gr**** mythology...