10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAENADIC»
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Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion
daggers.4" The Athenian Thyiades performed dances along che way when
travelling to Parnassos in their biennial rituaL48 There were clearly similar bands
of women in other cities: in 355 BC the Phokian Thyiades in their maenadic ...
2
Her Share of the Blessings : Women's Religions among Pagans, ...
perhaps even intertwined. Cole may be right that Dionysos's conversation with
Pentheus alludes to rites that confer blessings in the afterlife — rites which are
now introduced in Thebes, alongside the maenadic rites. Albert Henrichs may be
...
Ross Shepard Kraemer Adjuct Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Fellow at the Center of Judaic Studies University of Pennsylvania, 1992
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Rewriting the Victorians Rle
The maenadic woman in these examples and others retains the connections we
have already noted: gender and madness are used in the service of nationalism
— the maenadic woman is alien to English propriety and containment. The site of
...
4
A Different God?: Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism
In general, it is not the extravagant ritual aspect of maenadic groups (handling of
snakes, consumption of raw meat), but “maenadism as a particular religious
experience” that marks Osborne's (henceforth O.) interest. I am not sure whether,
...
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The Oxford Classical Dictionary
While men, too, could 'go mad' for Dionysus, they could not join the bands (
thiasoi) of maenadic women who went 'to the mountain' (eis oros) every other
year in many Greek cities to celebrate their rites. Their notional leader was
always the ...
Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, Esther Eidinow, 2012
6
Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions
Neither Cadmus (the father of Agave and the grandfather of her son, Pentheus)
nor Tiresias the seer, both of whom dress in maenadic garb and who are
prepared to dance, are able to join the maenads. So, too, Pentheus, king of
Thebes, who ...
David Shulman Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Guy S. Stroumsa Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion both at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002
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Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece
Although we should not read the Bakchai as a historical account of women's
maenadic practices, the arguments canvassed so far do not, to my mind, disprove
maenadic participation by women of varying social status, and certainly do not
offer ...
8
Papers on the Amasis Painter and His World: A Colloquium ...
The Kleo— phrades Painter, the Brygos Painter, and Euripides have set the
standard for maenadic behavior and its portrayal, a standard modern interpreters
find difficult to resist. Ever since Nietzsche and his friend Erwin Rohde initiated
the ...
J. Paul Getty Museum, 1987
Two aspects of the maenadic procession in the manuscript of 'The Triumph' offer
some grounds for extending the Uffizi note's questioning of maenadic
consciousness and for extending Quint's and Roberts's turn of vacancy to political
and ...
Timothy Webb, Alan Mendel Weinberg, 2009
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Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext
The prophecy's focus on the issues surrounding maenadic resistance to marriage
betrays a female perspective. Ritual thus in this instance also emerges as
powerful enough to help women articulate the loss and perversion that the men's
war ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAENADIC»
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maenadic is used in the context of the following news items.
Lunette from the east wall of the Garden Room, House of the Golden …
In Oxford I preside over gardens which have their maenadic moments, especially when the young hold their triennial College Ball. Was there ... «Financial Times, Apr 13»
Jerry Lewis and Love
... if the lights had gone out, been the center of an orgy spinning out into a maenadic fury that would have made Woodstock look like a backyard ... «New Yorker, Mar 12»
Young Man Behaving Badly
It was a cheering surprise, the sort of dismal shape you could be in and still get into some maenadic self-harmer's pants. Granted, these ... «New York Times, Nov 07»
The Double Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
The prim obliterated polite face of life, and the broad, bawdy, and orgiastic—or maenadic—foundations, form a spectacle to which no habit reconciles me. «Atlantic Online, Nov 07»
