noun

definition

A female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling.

definition

An excessively wild or emotional woman.

Examples of maenads in a Sentence

Maenads expect offerings or tributes from those that sell libations.

The Maenads (" mad ones ") or Bacchae, the women attendants of Dionysus, with their snake-accompaniments, are only one of the various snake-features associated with the cult of a deity who was also a god of healing.

When Dionysus, with his band of frenzied women (Maenads) arrived at Thebes (his native place and the first city visited by him in Greece), Pentheus denied his divinity and violently opposed the introduction of his rites.

Andre's sombre rage against the course of events found vent in the line on the Maenads who mutilated the king's Swiss Guard, and in the Ode d Charlotte Corday congratulating France that "Un scelerat de moins rampe dans cette fange."

A large fragment of a relief also of early date, represents two dancing maenads half life-size.

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