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Maenad carrying a thyrsus and a leopard with a snake rolled up over her head. Tondo of an ancient Greek Attic white-ground kylix 490–480 BC from Vulci. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany. Dancing Maenad Roman copy of Greek original attributed to Kallimachos c. 425 –400 BCE at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The maenads were, in Ancient Greece, women who took part in the cult of Dionysus. They reached ecstasy and trance by screaming and dancing. They reached ecstasy and trance by screaming and dancing. They used many Dionysian attributes such as the nebris or the thyrsus , and took drugs chewing ivy leaves.
The ecstatic Kouretes dancing around the infant Zeus, depicted by Jane Ellen Harrison, 1912. Little is known directly of ecstatic dance in ancient times. However, Greek mythology does have several stories of the Maenads; the maenads were intoxicated female worshippers of the Greek god of wine, Dionysus, known for their "ecstatic revelations and frenzied dancing".
English: Menade (or maenad) in silk dress, a Roman fresco from the Casa del Naviglio in Pompeii, 1st century AD, Naples National Museum. Italiano: Menade danzante, in abito di seta. Affresco (cm 66 x 52) del I secolo d.C. da Pompei , Casa del Naviglio (VI, 10, 11), oggi al Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (inv. nr. 9298).
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Maenads (23 P) S. Satyrs (4 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Dance in Greek mythology" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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