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bacchae

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bacchae: see maenads maenads , in Greek and Roman religion and mythology, female devotees of Dionysus. They roamed mountains and forests, adorned with ivy and skins of animals, waving the thyrsus.
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Yeats (see Claire Fanger); and studies of particular works, such as Euripides' Bacchae (see Melinda Weinstein), the Tarot of Marseilles (discussed above), and Venetian senator Angelo Querini's garden near Padua (see Patrizia Granziera).
Esotericism, Art, and Imagination by Auger, Emily E. / Mythlore
Ascetics and religious fanatics often suffer from this condition, which Euripides explores for us most vividly in his greatest play, The Bacchae.
MEDEA by Kafatou, Sarah / Harvard Review
The following evening, thanks to musical preparation by Irina Soboleva, he conjured similarly Slavic passions from Kròl Roger , Polish composer Karol Szymanowski's update of The Bacchae to 12th-century Sicily, fast-forwarded to our own shallow times in Mariusz Trelinski's sleek modern staging.
Edinburgh festival: When music is drawn into the political cesspool by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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