What dance did the women in Greece perform for Dionysus? It was during the night?
2007-03-04 09:55:37 · 3 answers · asked by sunflowerdaisy94 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
The Dionysiac rites are thought to have survived into modern times in the rites of Anastenaria, still practiced to the present day by Greeks descendant from Thracian populations displaced during the course of the Balkan wars. Though some scholars dispute this interpretation, most are of the opinion that the fire walking accompanied by ecstatic dancing, drumming, and forays into the woods or mountains by participants "possessed by the saint", as well as the preliminary animal sacri
2007-03-04 10:18:21 · answer #1 · answered by Pixie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
women chewed ivy, laurel and drank wine while dancing and singing in celebration of the Greek God of fertility and wine....Dionysus. I think it was to give them a "night out" to put it in modern terms and a break from the everyday stringent regiment of a strict existence. I also heard that the Margi Gras has it's roots in this "celebration" of dance.
2007-03-04 20:58:40 · answer #2 · answered by EvelynMine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nicely stated Pixie...I won't bother to pick up my book.
2007-03-04 18:47:37 · answer #3 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋