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bacchant [ˈbækənt] n pl bacchants, bacchantes [bəˈkæntɪz]
1. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) a priest or votary of Bacchus 2. a drunken reveller [from Latin bacchāns, from bacchārī to celebrate the bacchanalia] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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bacchanal bacchante bacchantes Bacchantic buff devotee drinker drunken reveler drunken reveller fan Imbiber juicer lover Roman mythology toper votary | There a foursquare Bacchant toasted his Ganymede with a full wine glass, there a second one cuddled against his boy with the warmest feelings of delight; here on the other hand a loose lad played with the belt of his Zeus, and there a victor disappeared with his Thracian booty. In Poliziano's La fabula, "the frenzy of the Bacchants textually recalls Poliziano's own account of the Pazzi conspiracy" (21), and the play, while not denying the empirical world, "marks the emergence of the world as fable, the world as a language construction" (23). In the version in the Brussels Musee des Beaux Arts, Silenus is one slide of fluster and ivresse, with a glowing spill of flesh, a drench of toppled wine and a slope of silver hair, caught up in a dithyrambic whirl accentuated by a maenad's tambourine; thronged around by Bacchants who struggle to support his bulk, their double chins slipping agog into their obesity as the maenad dodges a faun's smacking kiss. |
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