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Date : approx. between 27 B.C. and 14
Material : Marble
Acquisition : Fletcher Fund (1935)
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Greek Antiquities
Sculpture
Area related
Greece
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Copy of a Greek relief of ca. 450-425 B.C. attributed to Kallimachos.
Maenads were mystical women inspired by the god of wine, Dionysos, to abandon their homes and families and roam the mountains and forests, singing and dancing in a state of ecstatic frenzy. The figure, wearing an ivy wreath and carrying a thyrsos bedecked with ivy leaves and berries, moves forward trancelike. She was copied from a famous dancing relief of dancing maenad dated to the late fifth century B.C., when Euridipe portrayed the manic devotees of Dionysos in his play the Bacchae.
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