Melinda - 1 minute myth (the bacchantes book 11)

I read book 11 where I found no mention of The Bacchantes.  It mentions a Bacchus and Eurydice and things bout crimes, roots, twisting, escape, furthing rooted, toes, and an oak tree.

When I looked up The Bacchantes, this is what I found:

The Bacchantes Book 11

-       no mention of them in this book so I did some searching

-       also I searched Ovid's book for Dionysus and could not locate him

The Bacchantes/Maenad

In Greek myth

Bacchantes or Maenad's were followers of Dionysus

Their names translate into raving ones.

Abandoning themselves to the wild and energies of nature,

they dress in costumes of fawn skin and ivy leave wreaths around their heads.

 

Dionysus made the bacchantes crazy

throwing them into a state of drunken frenzied dance

becoming excited sexually.

 

They show off their free spirits, but the darker side soon appears.

 

This trance leads to the hunt.

 

No fire or weapons can harm them.

The Bacchantes take powerful pride in this hunt by tearing to pieces humans and animals long their path, sometimes followed eating them.

 

These were the mad women, the nurses of Dionysus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchantes

http://loggia.com/myth/maenad.html

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-bacchante.htm

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-bacchante.htm