maenadism


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maenadism

behavior characteristic of a maenad or bacchante; raging or wild behavior in a woman. — maenadic, adj.
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behavior characteristic of a maenad or bacchante; raging or wild behavior in a woman.
See also: Women
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See Panoussi 2009, 139-42 on Maenadism here and its effects on marriage and the city.
Helen of Rome? Helen in Vergil's Aeneid
Embracing the violent passions of Maenadism, Callirrhoe kills
The fierce earth: "Michael Field's" pagan politics
According to Henrichs, maenadism, as a component of Dionysiac worship, insured the fruitfulness of the land and a stable and profitable economy.
Knife-wielding women of the Bacchanalia
However, Maenadism was also associated with dangerously transgressive behavior that operated in contradistinction to the laws of the polis.
Libidinous laureates and lyrical maenads: Michael Field, Swinburne and erotic Hellenism
1978) "Greek Maenadism from Olympias to Messalina", HSCP 82: 121-160.
?Hubo ritos de paso cruentos en el orfismo?
Henrichs, 'Greek maenadism from Olympias to Messalina', HSCPh 82 (1978), 121-60, esp.
Dionysiac tragedy in Plutarch, 'Crassus.'

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