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noun - an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman
noun - (Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus
adj - a female participant in ancient Greek orgies [n -S or -ES] : MAENADIC
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| Plural form of maenad. |
| (in ancient Greece) a female follower of Bacchus, traditionally associated with divine possession and frenzied rites. |
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In Greek mythology, Maenads (; Ancient Greek: [mainades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones". Maenads were known as Bassarids, Bacchae or Bacchantes in Roman mythology after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a bassaris or fox-skin. * Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by Dionysus into a state of ecstatic frenzy through a combination of dancing and intoxication. During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped with a pine cone. They would weave ivy-wreaths around their heads or wear a bull helmet in honor of their god, and often handle or wear snakes.These women were mythologized as the 'mad women' who were nurses of Dionysus in Nysa. Lycurgus "chased the Nurses of the frenzied Dionysus through the holy hills of Nysa, and the sacred implements dropped |