Definition of Bacchanals

1. Noun. (plural of bacchanal) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bacchanals

1. bacchanal [n] - See also: bacchanal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacchanals

baccara
baccaras
baccarat
baccarats
baccare
baccas
baccate
baccated
bacchanal
bacchanale
bacchanalia
bacchanalian
bacchanalianism
bacchanalians
bacchanalias
bacchanals (current term)
bacchanology
bacchant
bacchante
bacchantes
bacchantic
bacchants
bacchiac
bacchian
bacchic
bacchical
bacchii
bacchius
bacchus
baccies

Literary usage of Bacchanals

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas by Paul Decharme (1906)
"... MORALITY DOUBTS REGARDING THE GODS — THE NATURE OF ZEUS THE DRAMA OF THE "bacchanals" THE ORPHIC MYSTERIES / MYTHS are the special material of tragedy. ..."

2. Attic & Elizabethan Tragedy by Lauchlan MacLean Watt (1908)
"CHAPTER XIX " MEDEA," " HIPPOLYTUS," AND " THE bacchanals " A WOMAN'S revenge for wrong and scorn, a woman's spiteful lie because her illicit passion has ..."

3. Greek Studies: A Series of Essays by Walter Pater (1897)
"... THE bacchanals OF EURIPIDES So far, I have endeavoured to present, with something of the concrete character of a picture, Dionysus, the old Greek god, ..."

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