Philosophy and Religion

Who were the maenads?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/were-maenads-245208.html" >Who were the maenads?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

... maenads , in Greek and Roman religion and mythology, female devotees of Dionysus.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about maenads . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: Were the maenads devotees of Dionysus? Who were the maenads devoted to? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

VAN DYCK BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS.(Anthony van Dyck)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review ...Some further portraits in the exhibition were painted before van Dyck settled in London...in a dithyrambic whirl accentuated by a maenad's tambourine; thronged around by Bacchants...slipping agog into their obesity as the maenad dodges a faun's smacking kiss. Silenus...
Songs of the Sirens.(Excerpt)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide ...musical-sexual gods who were central to the religious life...of Tragedy, these two gods were represented as opposing forces...and always accompanied by the maenads, a group of frenzied female...aulos. Pottery art shows the maenads dancing to these songs, with...
The heroics of style: a study in three parts.(A Column)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review ...declarative sentence. I want to begin with Maenad, composed soon after Plath's 27th birthday...somehow quell her terror. Yet as the title, Maenad, tells us, the speaker has every right...girl who wanted to be God.' Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be...
The predicament of modern poetry (the lyric at the pinch-gate).(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review ...choice in. Zone wind, wind out of Thrace were we elsewhere, which we're not, But...fond redundancy, that, even after the Maenads dismember Orpheus for ignoring their attractions...so understandably infuriating to the Maenads, finally quits. If Wright erases from...
Henze's dance of death.(On Music)(Hans Werner Hanze)
Magazine article from: The New Leader ...music has fluctuated wildly. Henze and I were more or less coevals, which may have...Dionysus, usually known as bacchantes or maenads, meaning"madwomen"--clearly a less...arrives from Asia with a retinue of riotous maenads, whom the women of Thebes, including...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.