Ovid’s Maenads

On how Maenads, or Maenad-like women, typify potential for feminine madness within / without cultural bounds

‘The death of Pentheus’; detail of a red-figure cup by the Athenian painter Douris, circa 480 BC An essay that focuses on Bacchantes in three tales of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, in which Maenads, or Maenad-like women, typify the potential for feminine madness within and without the bounds of culture. You can find the essay here.

“under revision” caveat here

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Author: Jacqueline A. Pollard

City Walker. Photo-taker. Lit PhD. View all posts by Jacqueline A. Pollard

2 thoughts on “Ovid’s Maenads”

Jacqueline A. Pollard says:

May 22, 2020 at 4:48 PM

Hello!
Please see this link:
Dancing Maenad: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dancing_maenad_Python_BM_VaseF253.jpg (the vase is in the British Museum)

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Sarpedon says:

May 21, 2020 at 6:48 PM

Can you please give info related to the vase that depicts maenad that you presented above?
I tried to find it online; yet failed to do so.

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