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King Pentheus must have felt a similar alarm when his mother and her sisters turned into Maenads, and he wasn't wrong, because in their sacred frenzy they finally did tear him limb from limb.
Madison Smartt Bell: American Terror Madison Smartt Bell 2011
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King Pentheus must have felt a similar alarm when his mother and her sisters turned into Maenads, and he wasn't wrong, because in their sacred frenzy they finally did tear him limb from limb.
Madison Smartt Bell: American Terror Madison Smartt Bell 2011
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In Greek mythology, Maenads were the female followers of Dionysus, the most significant members of the Thiasus, the retinue of Dionysus.
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Dionysus is typically accompanied in these paintings by an entourage of sexy female Maenads and even sexier male Satyrs, nude, betailed and erect.
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Maenads are basically the female equivalent of the Roman God Bacchus You've probably heard of him at some point
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From Wikipedia: In Greek mythology, Maenads were the female followers of Dionysus, the most significant members of the Thiasus, the retinue of Dionysus.
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Oh and Maenads normally have a pig for a companion lol
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Often the Maenads were portrayed as inspired by him into a state of ecstatic frenzy, through a combination of dancing and drunken intoxication. sound familiar?
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Your trembling limbs prostrate, ye Maenads, low upon the ground.
The Bacchantes 2008
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Evius honours thee, to thee will he come with his Bacchic rites to lead the dance, and thither will he lead the circling Maenads, crossing the swift current of Axius and the
The Bacchantes 2008
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