(from the article `tragedy`) ...her worship; she acts solely out of personal spite. In Medea, Medea`s revenge on Jason through the slaughter of their children is so hideously ... ...reliefs offer proof of an ecstatic dance connected with the cult of Dionysus. It was celebrated with a `sacred madness` at the time of the ... ...
Roman name of the Maenads.
Collective term for the bacchantes and maenads, women who took part in the worship of the Greek god Dionysus. ...
Bacchae (BAK ee) Greek myth, women companions of Bacchus; priestesses of Bacchus; the women who took part in the Bacchanalia [bak' uh NAYL yuh] which was an ancient Roman festival in honor of Bacchus; by extension, a drunken party, an orgy.
female worshippers of Dionysus (Bacchus) and title of tragedy by Euripides