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Position:Home>History> Could Women Really Do This?Question: Could Women Really Do This!? Maenads, wild worshippers Dionysus: the Greek god of wine, were said to have gone crazy during his festivals!. So wild were they that they were said to have ripped men apart!.
Do you think they were literally able to rip men apart or is it all just an exaggeration!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: These festivals WERE real and yes, the Maenads [Bacchantes] DID worship Dionysus, the god of wine AND pleasure! Like modern-day cults (such is in the Appalachians and other backwater places)!.!.!.STRANGE THINGS happen! Snake-handling, babbling in tongues and even, who knows(!?)!.!.!.possibly human sacrifice! The question: could a bunch of women rip men apart!? OF COURSE! (they've got those sharp nails, too!)!. Yes, they were and still ARE able to do it!.!.!.hell, a bunch of KIDS could do it if there were enough of 'em! But DID they!? We only have accounts from those who CLAIM to be eye-witnesses or who talked to such, as in Eurpides' play "The Bacchantes": "we fled, to escape being torn in pieces by the Bacchantes; but they, with hands that bore no weapon of steel, attacked our cattle as they browsed!. Then wouldst thou have seen Agave mastering some sleek lowing calf, while others rent the heifers limb from limb!. Before thy eyes there would have been hurling of ribs and hoofs this way and that; and strips of flesh, all blood-bedabbled, dripped as they hung from the pine-branches!. Wild bulls, that glared but now with rage along their horns, found themselves tripped up, dragged down to earth by countless maidens' hands!. The flesh upon their limbs was stripped therefrom quicker than thou couldst have closed thy royal eye-lids!." It goes on with more destruction and celebrating the "carnal" urges!. I say, if they could rip apart a bull, then a guy stood no chance!. I'm glad I didn't run into them! But, then, the Druids also sacrificed people, as did many other cultures, such as the Mayans and so on!. Just DON'T travel back in time to anyplace where guys are on the menu! Www@QuestionHome@Com I really don't think ANYONE could rip another human apart with their hands!. Not without a tool of some sort!.!.!. unless they were a body builder!. Maybe then they could do something!. And I agree!. You do sound kind of sexist, just in the way you worded it!. I'm not familiar with this story, but it might be metaphorical!. If not, who knows!. We're talking about Greek mythology!. None of it is true!. Ripping apart, like I said, is extreme for anyone!. They could still do some damage, though!. Www@QuestionHome@Com These and other stories, are part of the "Greek Mythology" and in order to understand these "wonderful and creative" stories, you need to start reading and understanding of the "Greek Philosophy"! :-)Www@QuestionHome@Com They might not have ripped men appart, but the point behind some revels was to re-enact the story that Dionysus was torn to peices by the Titans and restored to life by Zeus!. Www@QuestionHome@Com that is an exaggeration fer sure!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Depends!. Not with their hands, but with tools like a sword or something yes they could haveWww@QuestionHome@Com |