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Maenads
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(Gr. Macva&es, frenzied women), the female attendants of Dionysus. They are known by other namesBacchae, Thyiades, Clodones and Mimallones (the last two probably of Thracian origin) - all more or less synonymous.
See the exhaustive articles by A. Legrand in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquites and A. Rapp in Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie; also editions of Euripides, Bacchae (e.g. J. E. Sandys).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Maenads'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/maenads.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Maenads'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/maenads.html. 1910.
