| They dance in imitation of maenads who associated with the god in the old days. |
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| His following is made up of satyrs and sileni and maenads, who seem possessed or intoxicated. |
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| He is said to have come from the East, with his maenads, fauns, satyrs, and wine lunacy. |
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| He has become the victim of sparagmos, in which the maenads tear animals limb from limb and eat their flesh raw. |
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| Suggests that intoxicating nectar may have inspired the mantic states of maenads and the Delphic oracle in ancient Greece. |
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| The hitherto silent island of Naxos has startlingly become populated with fauns and maenads and sileni and old Silenus himself swaying inebriate on his donkey. |
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| Dionysos and his satyrs, nymphs, and maenads are, of course, found everywhere in the ancient world, but they appear most frequently in dining rooms and gardens. |
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| Like Dionysus, who inflamed the maenads, Poseidon also caused certain forms of mental disturbance. |
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| The volume is haunted by the death of the vates Orpheus, who failed to revive Eurydice from death and was then torn apart by maenads. |
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| The dancers become maenads, Valkyries, attacking their material with tremendous force while Daniel Bernard Roumain's score soared from wah-wah pedal guitar to tender violin. |
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| The Maenads were Dionysus' female votaries who accompanied him when he traveled. |
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