(1) The maenadic dances were usually based on either walking - taking long steps and advancing rapidly - or running, which resembled a series of leaps.(2) He (or she, for this god could be tantalizingly androgynous) is said to have come from the East, with his maenads , fauns, satyrs, and wine lunacy.(3) Dionysos and his satyrs, nymphs, and maenads are, of course, found everywhere in the ancient world, but they appear most frequently in dining rooms and gardens.(4) They dance in imitation of maenads who associated with the god in the old days.(5) In the context of the Counter-Reformation, there is also a fascinating echo here of the standard format of an altarpiece, with the satyrs and maenads at the foot of the painting taking the place normally occupied by donors.(6) Neither celebration had anything in common with the wild orgies of the Bacchae, but women employed maenadic ritual equipment like the thyrsus and crowns of ivy in polis festivals.(7) His following is made up of satyrs and sileni (amoral woodland creatures, basically human but with some animal characteristics) and maenads , who seem possessed or intoxicated.(8) Wisely, in the brief rehearsal time allotted to them before this season began, Capucilli, Dakin, and their assistants developed a chorus that performed with maenadic power and unity.
