However, he is a
Maenad without the communitas of his fellow devotees because he has looked back from the wilderness and he yearns for what he has left behind.
Dionysos might be expected to be seen with some of his usual attributes, such as his kantharos (drinking cup), ivy vines, thyrsos (fennel stalk), and animal skins, or perhaps in a narrative context with
maenads and satyrs, who form his band of followers.
We first learn of Dionysos from the Asiatic
maenads of the chorus who have been initiated by the god; then by two old men of Thebes who stress the universal importance of the god.
(78) Although Daphnis knows the names of Zeus, Pan, Dionysus, and the Satyrs (1,16,3-4) and uses them in his argument with Dorcon, he evidently cannot recognize a
Maenad.
True Blood (10.05pm) Bill visits Sophie-Anne, the vampire queen of Louisiana, in a bid to get advice on how to deal with the
maenad - but finds that she is in no rush to tell him what he needs to know.
Unfortunately, as we now know, she's an evil
Maenad, and no one quite knows how to destroy her.
True Blood Home and Away (10.05pm) Bill visits Sophie-Anne, the vampire queen of Louisiana, in a bid to get advice on how to deal with the
maenad - but finds that she is in no rush to tell him what he needs to know.
Another female figure was found during this season, of a
maenad, one of the companions of the wine god Dionysus.
All around them stood the bird cherry with her festoonery of wild hop; the rowan, fresh and mantling like a shepherdess's cheek; the
maenad hazel with her verdant thyrsi wreathed in grape-like clusters of pearly nuts.
The
maenad with or without weapons was a complex character that was the product of overlapping ideas based in Greek thought, religion, art, and theater.
Finally, on the front view of the 5000 Denari banknote we can identify the Tetovo
Maenad of the VI century B.C.
(210-19) As Isobel Hurst astutely remarks, Xantippe here symbolically assumes the role of
maenad, a figure that had contemporary as well as classical associations since French female revolutionaries and contemporary "wild women" were termed
maenads for their "unnatural" violence and aggression.
There were we all together, an' I saw in Aunty Ailsa the look of a
maenad, that she would have torn the flesh from the warm beast with her own teeth.
