Maenadism in the Bacchae

“In art, as well as in poetry, the representation of these wild states of enthusiasm was apparently due to the imagination alone, for in prose literature we have very little evidence, in historic times, of women actually holding revels in the open air. Such a practice would have been alien to the sp...

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Main Author: Dodds, E. R. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1940
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1940, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 155-176
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