Tanzende Mänade

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Maenads were mythical 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. This figure, wearing an ivy wreath and carrying a thyrsos (fennel stalk) bedecked with ivy leaves and berries, moves forward, trancelike, her drapery swirling about her. She was copied from a famous relief of dancing maenads dated to the late fifth century B.C., when Euripides portrayed the manic devotees of Dionysos in his play the Bacchae.The Metropolitan Museum of Art:Marble relief with a dancing maenadAdaptation of work attributed to KallimachosDate: ca. 27 B.C. - A.D. 14Culture: RomanMedium: Marble, PentelicDimensions: H. 56 5/16 in. (143 cm)Stone SculptureCopy of a Greek relief of ca. 425 - 400 B.C. attributed to KallimachosScanned with 123DCatch on iPhone 5S on 26 Jan. 2014a repost of bdipaolo 's https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:239387 As it is the model renders at 4 x 2 cm when you lay it on it's back while the original is 143 cm in the largest dimension. I recommend to scale it up to ~20 cm or you won't see much. Category: Sculptures