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 maenad Adaptation of work attributed to Kallimachos Period: Early Imperial, Augustan Date: ca. 27 B.C. - A.D. 14 Culture: Roman Medium: Marble, Pentelic Dimensions: H. 56 5/16 in. (143 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture Scanned with 123DCatch on iPhone 5S on 26 Jan. 2014 Copy of a Greek relief of ca. 425 - 400 B.C. attributed to Kallimachos a repost of bdipaolo 's https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:239387