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MAENADS (Gr. MatvaSes, frenzied women)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAENADS (Gr. MatvaSes, frenzied See also:women) , the See also:female attendants of See also:Dionysus. They are known by other names—Bacchae, 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 See also:des antiquites and A. Rapp in See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie; also See also:editions of See also:Euripides, Bacchae (e.g. J. E. See also:Sandys).

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