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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York, United States) 35.11.3en_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 27 BCE-14 CE (creation)en_US
dc.creatorKallimachosen_US
dc.date-27-14en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-23T18:14:16Z
dc.date.available2016-08-23T18:14:16Z
dc.date.issued-27-14en_US
dc.identifier268064en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3449en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/184389
dc.descriptionDetail, thyrsos (fennel stalk); Copy of a Greek relief of ca. 425-400 BCE attributed to Kallimachos; the Roman adaptation dates from the Early Imperial (Augustan) period. Maenads were mythical women inspired by the god of wine, Dionysos, to 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, moves forward, trancelike, her drapery swirling about her. She was copied from a famous relief of dancing maenads dated to the late fifth century BCE, when Euripides portrayed the manic devotées of Dionysos in his play the Bacchae. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art [website]; http://www.metmuseum.org (accessed 5/12/2015)en_US
dc.format.mediumPentelic marbleen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjecthuman figureen_US
dc.subjectmythology (Classical)en_US
dc.subjectDionysus (Greek deity)en_US
dc.subjectdanceen_US
dc.subjectdancingen_US
dc.subjectImperial (Roman)en_US
dc.subjectClassicalen_US
dc.titleMarble relief with a dancing maenaden_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode7A3-MMA-GC-DM-A03en_US
vra.culturalContextRoman (ancient)en_US
vra.techniquecarving (processes)en_US
vra.worktyperelief (sculpture)en_US
dc.contributor.displayafter Kallimachos (Greek (ancient) sculptor, active 2nd half of 5th century BCE)en_US


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