1) Bacchantes 2) Bacchus-loving women 3) Dionysian attendants 4) Frenzied or distraught women 5) Frenzied retinue of Dionysus 6) Frenzied women 
wild female followers of Dionysus.
Maenads were female followers of the god Dionysus
Female companions of the wine god Dionysos; see there. Dionysus Greek god of vegetation, viticulture and ecstasy or intoxication. He was also called Bromios (noisy) or Bakchos (shouting, screaming) because of the noise his entourage made. This is where the name Bacchus, which is commonly used in Roman mythology, comes from. He is usually depic...