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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...
- his wife Eurydice from the underworld, and his death at the hands of the maenads of Dionysus, who got tired of his mourning for his late wife Eurydice....
- 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...
- 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...
- depicts Maenads, Dionysus' female worshippers, eating raw meat as part of their worship; however, there is little solid evidence that historical Maenads consumed...
- 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...
- 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...
- another name for the Maenads (the female worshippers of Dionysus). The Lenaia is depicted on numerous vases, which show both typical Maenad scenes and those...
- Club Dead). Maenads: In Gr**** mythology, a maenad is a female follower of the Gr**** god Dionysus. In the series universe, however, a maenad is a creature...