10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAENADISM»
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1
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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2
Athens and Athenian Democracy
and notes that none of the features of historical maenadism which Henrichs
admits 'exclude extreme forms of ecstatic behaviour in principle'.9 Versnel is
concerned with early maenadism and claims that 'there is no reason to doubt the
wide ...
3
The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' ...
When the participants in the Bacchic mysteries, a cult that had little historical
connection with Greek maenadism, went about wearing fawn-skins and carrying
thyrsi, they exhibited the impact at Rome of the Bacchae.S* As an account of the
...
4
Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion. 1, Ter Unus: ...
Particularly relevant and helpful for the themes of maenadism and Bacchic ritual
are: J. N. Bremmer, Greek Maenadism Reconsidered, ZPE 55 (1984) 267-86;
R. S. Kraemer, Ecstasy and Possession: The Attraction of Women to the Cult of ...
5
The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece
Maenadism is the performance, by a female thiasos (group), of a certain kind of
cult, usually involving frenzy, in honour of Dionysos. We have descrip-tions of
mythical maenads (notably in Euripides' The Bacchae) as well as evidence, such
as ...
Sue Blundell, Margaret Williamson, Margaret Williamson**Nfa***,
2014
6
Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext
The representation of maenadism in the Aeneid has often been dismissed as a
metaphor for insanity. Yet a close reading of the poem does not allow for
unilateral interpretation. In the following pages, I argue that the bacchic element
as seen ...
7
The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology
"6 "Hysterics" is a name for the victims; yet they are victims less of Dionysus than
of secular psychiatry, which also is responsible for "wrong" or "black" maenadism.
97 The white kind of votary refers to "hysteria subdued in the service of religion ...
8
A Companion to Greek Tragedy
Maenadism is closely associated with this theme. While in ritual practice
maenadism is a benign communal negation of female adherence to the
household, in tragedy it is represented as an uncontrollable force, causing the
collapse of the ...
9
Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits
In that same year A. Rapp distinguished the violent maenadism of myth from the
subdued maenadism of cult;54 Miss Harrison took account of Nietzsche, but not
of Rapp. Like almost all scholars at that time, Miss Harrison believed that the cult
...
Edward Shils, Carmen Blacker,
1996
10
Baptism and Resurrection: Studies in Pauline Theology ...
For a slightly earlier period Henrichs, 'Glimpses' 9, points to the evidence of
maenads in the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.E. , and writes in 'Identities' 144 that
the 'epigraphi- cal evidence confirms that ritual maenadism existed in the
Hellenistic ...
A. J. M. Wedderburn,
1987
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