Maenad

The Maenads are a group of women in Greek mythology. Followers of the god Dionysos, they were known for their frenzied revelries.
==History==
In the myths, the Maenads are credited with the death of the King Pentheus of Thebes.
The king had forbidden the worship of Dionysos in his city, and spied his own among the Maenads, until the participants noticed him and pulled him down from the tree he was hiding in, tearing his limbs and head off.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Korinthia: Statue of Dionysos
==Influence==
By the 5th century BCE, a hilly region on the island of Naxos was named after the Maenads.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
The Daughters of Artemis also named one of their campsites after the women during the Peloponnesian War.
==Behind the scenes==
The mural featuring Dionysos and the maenads in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is based on Dance of Bacchantes by the ceramic painter Hieron.The Dance – Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. This mural seems to be unique to the Telesterion of Eleusis in the game.
The term 'maenad' has come to mean a person, usually a woman, who is in a state of wild excitement, especially frenzy.Maenad on Wiktionary In Assassin's Creed: Origins, a man in Cyrenaica recalled this sense while exclaiming how "Flavius has made [them] his Maenads."Assassin's Creed: Origins – The Final Weighing
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Origins 
*Assassin's Creed: Odyssey 
==References==
Category:Greek mythology
Category:Cults