Definition & Meaning | English word BACCHANTES

Definitions of BACCHANTES

1. plural of bacchant.
2. plural of bacchante.

Examples of Using BACCHANTES in a Sentence

• Often they represent minor deities associated with fields and vineyards and the edges of woodland, Pan and fauns and Bacchantes especially, and they may be draped with garlands of fruit and flowers.
• Applied by the Greeks to manifestations of divine possession, by Apollo (as in the case of the Pythia), or by Dionysus (as in the case of the Bacchantes and Maenads), the term enthusiasm was also used in a transferred or figurative sense.
• The Bacchantes: A Dionysian Scientific Romance (translated, annotated and introduced by Brian Stableford, 2013).
• The titles of ten of his plays are given by the Suda: Acteon, Amphiaraos, Achilles, The Bacchantes, Dexamenus, Erigone, Thyestes, Leucippus, Persis, and Telephus.
• On 15 May 1813, he assisted at the capture and destruction of the castle and batteries of Karlobag and, on 12 June, he commanded the Bacchantes yawl in the capture at Giulianova of seven large gun-boats, three smaller gun-vessels, and 14 merchantmen.
• All these women cast off their nuns' costume, they shake off the cold powder of the grave; suddenly they throw themselves into the delights of their past life; they dance like bacchantes, they play like lords, they drink like sappers.
• Seventeen bacchantes (personifications of the female servants of Bacchus, the ancient Roman god of wine) standing on orbs, their outstretched arms holding candleholders, could be inserted into small rectangular pedestals at equidistant points around the centerpiece.
• The chariot of Bacchus and Ariadne is accompanied by bacchantes, satyrs, fauns, sylvans, and others.
• The entire performance was elaborately orchestrated, with the singers variously accompanied by harpsichord, nightingale stop on the organ, bass viol, cornett, crumhorns, flutes, violin, violone, and a quartet of trombones; during the finale, 20 bacchantes, mostly drunk and consisting of ladies and satyrs, were to come on stage singing and playing pipe, tabor, violin, harp, cornetts, crumhorns, and tambourine, and the performance closed with entrance and song by the personification of Night, accompanied by four trombones.
• Other characters who have become traditional elements of the Fête des Vignerons appeared in the following years; Noah (the very first winegrower), people carrying the grapes of Canaan, priests and priestesses from Greek mythology, basket-bearers (kanephoros) and a group of fauns and bacchantes.

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