Dancing Maenads Bacchants Sculpture Relief Frieze 37" Long. In Greek
mythology, Maenads (Greek: ????????) were the inspired and frenzied
female worshippers of Dionysus, the Greek god of mystery, wine, and
intoxication, the Roman god Bacchus. Their name literally translates as
"raving ones". They were known as wild, insane women who could not be
reasoned with. The mysteries of Dionysus inspired the women to ecstatic
frenzy; they indulged in copious amounts of violence, bloodletting,
sexual activity, self-intoxication, and mutilation. They were usually
pictured as crowned with vine leaves, clothed in fawnskins and carrying
the thyrsus, and dancing with wild abandon. The Maenads are the most
significant members of the Thiasus, the retinue of Dionysus. In
Macedon, according to Plutarch's Life of Alexander, they were called
Mimallones and Klodones. In Greece they were described as Bacchae,
Bassarides, Thyiades, Potniades and other epithets.
$175.00
Dimensions: 37"W x 1"D x 17"H (94cm x 3cm x 43cm)
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