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This document summarizes and challenges the traditionally held view that maenadic rituals involving female devotees of Dionysus excluded men. The author reexamines the limited historical evidence from inscriptions and literature, arguing that men likely observed and sometimes participated in maenadic rituals. Specifically, the author closely reinterprets three Hellenistic inscriptions that were thought to support exclusion of men but instead suggest their presence. The literary evidence from Euripides, part
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- AllanMoraes
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