Bacchantes
The Bacchantes were mainly women (but there existed also Bacchants ) who celebrated the mysteries Dionysos - Bacchus. The first which bore this name were the nymphs nurses of Bacchus, which followed it to the conquest of the the Indies. They ran that there and, dishevelled, with half naked or covered with skins of tigers, the crowned head of Lierre, the thyrse with the hand, dancing and filling the air with unmatched cries. They frequently repeated the cry Évoé (“courage, my son! ”), like recalling the triumphs of Bacchus on the Giants.
Their festival, called Orgies, was celebrated formerly in Greece, Egypt and mainly with Rome.
Bacchantes is also the title of the last play of Euripide.
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