concept
The Bacchantes
also: Eleleides
Female devotees of Bacchus, driven by his ecstatic frenzy; named Eleleides from their ritual cry.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §1.16 the Mimallonids
The Bacchae or Maenads, the frenzied female votaries of Bacchus.
- The Heroides §4 Eleleides
The Bacchantes, frenzied female followers of Bacchus, named from their ritual cry 'eleleu.'
- The Heroides §10 a Bacchante
A frenzied female votary of Bacchus; Ariadne wanders the shore like one possessed.
- Metamorphoses §3.63 the clear voice of the Bacchantes
The Bacchantes (Maenads), the frenzied women votaries of Bacchus.
- Metamorphoses §9.275 Ismarian Bacchants
The frenzied female worshippers of Bacchus from Thracian Ismarus, here a simile for Byblis's madness.