“Nymphs Dancing to Pan's Flute by Joseph Tomanek (1889-1974)”

Cover art: William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) The Youth of Bacchus (1884) On Maenads The Maenads were the female followers of Dionysus in Greek Mythology. The word Maenads in Greek means ̶…

Marble relief of a maenad and two satyrs in a Dionysiac procession Roman, about AD 100 From the Villa Quintiliana on the Via Appia, south of Rome This ecstatic procession features two satyrs and a female follower of Dionysos (Bacchus), god of wine. The satyr and maenad at the front play pipes and a small drum. The other satyr carries a thyrsos, Dionysos' staff, and is accompanied by a panther, recalling the god's exotic origens. The relief was made in the Roman period, but the figures derive…

Maenad "The House of Vines"

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To the Editors: In his fervent hymn to the singularity of Bacchae, Daniel Mendelsohn describes its text as “the only surviving Greek play about Dionysus himself, the god of drama.” But The Frogs of Aristophanes is another surviving Greek play about Dionysus (and Euripides and Aeschylus).