How was ritual, sacred madness connected to feminine autonomy, embracing paradox, and transcending patriarchal biases in the nascent era of Greek civilisation? How did the practices of the Maenads, with their frenzied mountain dances and consumption of psychotropic substances, subvert expectations of women in those times? In Week 2 of Dionysus: Rave, Ritual and Revolution, Chiara Baldini, we explore who the Maenads were, what they were doing, and why it was revolutionary.
Though it was not necessarily the Maenads’ intentions, their behaviour, considered inappropriate in patriarchal, rigid Greek society, defied convention, evoking whispers of scandal and prompting introspection into the very fabric of societal norms-revealing much about culture and society at the time, reflecting the fractures within patriarchal society’s facade. Chiara invites us to consider to what extent the Maenads as a disruptive presence in Greek society can be paralleled to subversive, countercultural movements of today, and what we can thus take away from this history.
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