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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
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women)  , the
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female attendants of
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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
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des antiquites and A . Rapp in
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Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie; also
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editions of
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Euripides, Bacchae (e.g . J . E .
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Sandys) .

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