Marble relief with a dancing maenad

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Marble relief with a dancing maenad
Marble relief with a dancing maenad

This is a copy of a relief of ca. 425-400 BCE, attributed to Kallimachos which shows several maenads dancing in a row, Roman copies of which are in other museums, such as the Prado in Madrid.

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 (*not* an artichoke or a pinecone, which many modern restorations have incorrectly added), 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 devotées of Dionysos in his play the Bacchae.

Roman, ca. 27 BCE-14 CE
Pentelic marble
No findspot

Metropolitan Museum of Art (35.11.3)

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Taken on: July 4, 2022
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