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Bacchantes

Related Category: Ancient Religion

see maenads.

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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. When they danced, they often work...