people
Edonians
the Edonian women
also: Edonides
A Thracian people; the Edonian maenads who murdered Orpheus, rooted by Bacchus into oak-trees.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §11.321 the Edonian mothers
A Thracian people; their maenads, who murdered Orpheus, are rooted by Bacchus into oak-trees in punishment.