Fragment of a marble relief with dancing maenads

Kallimachos

1st–2nd century CE · Marble, Pentelic · Greek and Roman Art

Adaptation of a Greek relief of about 425–400 B.C. attributed to Kallimachos In myth and art the wine god, Dionysos, is accompanied by dancing women known as maenads. The most famous description of them comes from The Bacchae, a play by Euripides produced in Athens in the late fifth century B.C. The most famous representations are from a relief of dancing maenads carved at the same time. This small relief is a reduced copy dating from the Roman period.

Artist

Kallimachos

Date

1st–2nd century CE

Medium

Marble, Pentelic

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1921