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Ben’s women are especially terrifying, whether flirting or purring or, eventually, whooping like maenads.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021

Greek maenads were the model for a new, uncorseted way of moving, leaping and dancing.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2017

Inside, there’s an echo of that window in the patterned mosaics, the most impressive being the famous 3rd-century Dionysus Mosaic, which depicts cavorting maenads and satyrs attending to the Greek god of wine.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2015

I can buy into maenads, vampire caste systems, and religious right megacults, but not when the whole package is shoved into an hour-long episode.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2011

The wind makes moan, the water runneth chill; I hear the nymphs go crying through the brake; And roaming mournfully from hill to hill The maenads all are silent for his sake!

From The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy by Cawein, Madison Julius