Ancient Greek ring depicting a dancing maenad. Artist unknown; 3rd or 2nd cent. BCE (Hellenistic). Now in the Louvre. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.
A maenad and a satyr (?) engaged in revels honoring Dionysus/Bacchus. Ancient Roman terracotta relief plaque, artist unknown; 27 BCE - 68 CE (Julio-Claudian). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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A maenad (female follower of Dionysus), crowned with ivy and wielding her thyrsus. Fragment of an Attic red-figure cup by the painter Macron; ca. 480 BCE. Now in the Louvre.
Dionysus with his thiasos (retinue of satyrs and Maenads). Upper tier of an Attic black-figure krater-psykter (wine-cooler), attr. to the circle of the Antimenes Painter; ca. 525-500 BCE. Now in the Louvre. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.
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A satyr and a Maenad converse. Side A of an Apulian red-figure bell-krater, attr. to the Tarporley Painter; ca. 380 BCE. Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
Relief sculpture depicting a dancing maenad holding a thyrsus. Roman copy (ca. 120-140 CE) after a 5th cent. BCE Greek original traditionally attributed to the sculptor Callimachus. Now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Photo credit: Luis García.
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Maenad bearing a plate with offerings. Fresco from a triclinium of the Casa del Centenario, Pompeii.
Dionysus faces two Maenads, one of whom holds a hare. Side B of an Attic black-figure neck-amphora, signed by the potter Amasis and attributed to the Amasis Painter; ca. 540 BCE. Now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.
Dionysus, attended by a Maenad, encounters Hephaestus, who is riding a donkey. Side B of an Attic black-figure amphora, attributed to the Antimenes Painter; ca. 520 BCE. Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
A Maenad holding Cupid. Fresco from the house of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Hermaphroditus, flanked by Silenus and a Maenad. Fresco from the triclinium of the procurator in the Casa del Centenario, Pompeii.
A satyr and a maenad. Fresco from the Casa degli Epigrammi, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
A satyr and a maenad. Attic red-figure askos, attributed to the Curtius Painter; between 480 and 450 BCE. Now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris. Photo credit: Sailko.
A satyr and a maenad. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, attributed to the Penthesilea Painter; ca. 460-450 BCE. Now in the Louvre.
A maenad with her thyrsus. Fragment of an Attic red-figure cup, attributed to the painter Macron; ca. 480 BCE. Now in the Louvre.
A maenad and a satyr. Attic red-figure Nikosthenic amphora, signed by the potter Pamphaios and attributed to the painter Oltos; ca. 525-515 BCE. Now in the Louvre.
A maenad. Attic red-figure skyphos, artist unknown; early 5th cent. BCE. Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.