he "whole process by which girls become wives of.
In fact ity, and skepticism (albeit in a narrow and reprehensible.
form) while Dionysus and his followers-effeminate and.
female-should stand as the representatives of the unrestrained,.
the wild, the irrational, the ecstatic (albeit in a divinely.
sanctioned form)"10. This separation of the sexes is also.
reflected by the common association of Dionysus and his followers.
as being foreign. This comparison is also used when discussing.
Amazons, and reflects the male idea of maenads as "women who have.
broken free from the place assigned them by society"10. Dionysiac.
worship was in fact seen by some as a "barbarian religion.
infecting women that temporarily returns them to their natural.
savagery"10. The worship of Dionysus ultimately showed the.
"oppositions between culture and nature, civilization and.
barbarity, the rational and the irrational, self-control and.
emotionality, which finally accrete themselves around the.
opposition between male and female"10 The opposition associated.
with the worship of Dionysus is reflected in general by an.
"inversion of normal roles"2, even on the part of men who must.
become a satyr to be involved in the rituals2. The satyr.
represents the male persona out of control, and often charged with.
sexual energy. It is in a way the male counterpart to the.
mythological maenad. In fact it can be seen that "the communal.
Dionysia on the one hand and the mountain pilgrimage of the women.
on the other each emphasize an aspect of human sexuality, the.
phallic and the female, and the two are seen together in the.
imagery of the satyrs and the maenads on Attic Greek vases"8. This.
view is appropriate when considering that Dionysus is a god of.
dualities, "who is both male and female, but [at the same time].
isolated from the sexuality around him"8.
maenadism is similar to some of the rites of.
Artemis; in both cases women leave home to go into the wild, but.
maenads go to "reject the males of their own household and.
