The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Dancing For Dionysus, on an Athenian cup by the painter Macron, of about 490B.C. The god is worshipped as a pillar,
dressed, with a head carved atop and sprouting vines with odd globes attached. The women perform the ecstatic dance of
maenads-one on the right holding the thyrsus wand of fennel with ivy leaves wrapped around its tip.