- In Gr**** mythology,
maenads (/ˈmiːnædz/;
Ancient Gr****: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the
female followers of
Dionysus and the most
significant members of...
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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...
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painting depicting a
hermaphrodite sitting, left hand
raised towards an old
satyr approaching from behind; a
maenad or
bacchant brings a love potion....
- The
Bacchae (/ˈbækiː/; ‹See Tfd›Gr****: Βάκχαι, Bakkhai; also
known as The
Bacchantes /ˈbækənts, bəˈkænts, -ˈkɑːnts/) is an
ancient Gr**** tragedy, written...
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Archaeological park of Baiae.
Bacchus Triumphant by John
Reinhard Weguelin (1882) A
Bacchant holding a thyrsus:
Malice by William-Adolphe
Bouguereau (1899) Cult of...
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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...
- the
warrior Morrheus with his arrows,
making him fall in love with the
bacchant Chalcomedeia and
distracting him from the battle.
Pasithea also appears...
- Euripides' Bacchae,
Dionysus carries out his
dances and
rites with his
bacchants, his priestesses, on Cithaeron.
Oedipus was
exposed on the mountain, while...
- Poems, 1893 The
Vinedresser and
Other Poems, 1899 The
Centaur and the
Bacchant. From the
French by
Maurice de Guerin, 1899 Altdorfer, 1900
Aphrodite Against...
- of sung verse.
Another is the
description of Al****ena in line 703 as a
bacchant,
which may be
connected with the
Senate decree on
Bacchanalia of 186 BC...
