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- celebrate the Dionysiac orgies with the Delphian Thyiades, received themselves the name of Thyades or Thyiades (synonymous with Maenads). She was said to have...
- enemy. In southern Greece they were described as Bacchae, B****arides, Thyiades, Potniades,[better source needed] and other epithets. The term maenad has...
- winnowing fan") was wakened by the Dionysian women, in this instance called Thyiades, in a cave on Parn****us high above Delphi; the winnowing-fan links the...
- retinue of Dionysus 1. Lenai (wine-press) 2. Mimallones (music) 4. Thyiai or Thyiades (thyrsus bearers) Melissae (honey) likely a subgroup of Oreades or Epimelides...
- inscriptions, which has been severely eroded by weathering, seems to say that Thyiades parti****ted in ceremonies at the Corycian Cave. Also, when looking at...
- practice is demonstrated in Gr**** culture by the Bacchanals of the Maenads, Thyiades, and Bacchoi; many Gr**** rulers considered the cult a threat to civilized...
- the Western pediment depicted Dionysus among his female votaries, the Thyiades. The exterior of the temple was also decorated with metopes, with five...
- whom the Delphians built an altar to the winds and who was eponym of the Thyiades. A mortal son of Cephissus was Eteocles by Euippe, daughter of Leucon,...
- 4000/pallas.1948. McInerney, Jeremy (1997). "Parn****us, Delphi, and the Thyiades". Gr****, Roman and Byzantine Studies. 38 (3): 263–284. Morgan, Catherine...
- and Thyia". Thyia in the Delphic tradition was an eponym naiad of the Thyiades, alternative name of the Maenads in the cult of Dionysus, certainly practiced...