How to pronounce“bacchae”in English
IPA/bæktʃæ/
Syllablesbac·chae
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According to some maybe true, maybe not reports, women participated in a ritual where they'd run through the countryside, tear apart some animal, and then, come home.
It's fun right? And if you want to know more about it, you can check out "The Bacchae" by Euripides. It is great.
Whether or not that happened, we do have good evidence that in the 6th century BCE, some less wild rituals celebrating Dionysus spread through Greece.
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Definitions of “bacchae”
noun
The maenads; followers of Bacchus.