From archaic times in Greece, we have news that women participated in the Dionysian cults organised by the polis, in menadic rites and in mystical cults. The activity “With strips and madly: maenads and bacchantes on the run” aims to approach this reality from different perspectives and to show, through texts and iconography, the rites in which women took part, the functions they performed as worshippers and priestesses, the clothes, adornments and attributes that identified them as followers of Dionysus, the setting of the rites and the state of enthusiasm and delirium that the bacchantes reached in some cases.

Collection: Multimedia

Project: 8. Women and the change for gender equality in Europe.

Chronology: -

Scope: Secondary Education

Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSTkYuU6iPdlc1KXidhxVHvZn_Jp_peHO

Resource type: Playlist on Youtube

Format: Multimedia

Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)

Abstract: From archaic times in Greece, we have news that women participated in the Dionysian cults organised by the polis, in menadic rites and in mystical cults. The activity "With strips and madly: maenads and bacchantes on the run" aims to approach this reality from different perspectives and to show, through texts and iconography, the rites in which women took part, the functions they performed as worshippers and priestesses, the clothes, adornments and attributes that identified them as followers of Dionysus, the setting of the rites and the state of enthusiasm and delirium that the bacchantes reached in some cases.