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The Women of Amphissa
Painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
The Women of Amphissa is an oil on canvas painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, made in 1887.
It is held at the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown. It depicts a group of maenads waking up in the market of Amphissa, after a night of debauchery.[1]
History
The maenads were, in Ancient Greece, women who took part in the cult of Dionysus.
They reached ecstasy and trance by screaming and dancing.
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They used many Dionysian attributes such as the nebris or the thyrsus, and took drugs chewing ivy leaves.
Alma-Tadema accurately recreates on his canvas the events recounted by Plutarch, in his book Moralia: "At the time when usurpers from Phocis seized the sanctuary of Delphi and the Thebans declared the so-called sacred war on them, the women in the service of Dionysus, who are called the maenads, in a trance and wandering at night, did not notice that they were in the territory of Amphissa.
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