| He has become the victim of sparagmos, in which the maenads tear animals limb from limb and eat their flesh raw. |
| He is said to have come from the East, with his maenads, fauns, satyrs, and wine lunacy. |
| They dance in imitation of maenads who associated with the god in the old days. |
| His following is made up of satyrs and sileni and maenads, who seem possessed or intoxicated. |
| 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. |
| Suggests that intoxicating nectar may have inspired the mantic states of maenads and the Delphic oracle in ancient Greece. |
