Editing Maenad (section)

===Resisters to the new religion===
[[File:Kylix by Makron Mainade Satyros Staatliche Antikensammlungen 480BC Kat 94 02.jpg|thumb|upright=.70|Maenad and [[satyr]]. [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] [[Kylix (drinking cup)|kylix]] by [[Makron (vase painter)|Makron]], 490-480 BC. Staatliche Antikensammlungen München Kat. 94]]
The term "maenads" also refers to women in mythology who resisted the worship of Dionysus and were driven mad by him, forced against their will to participate in often horrific rites. The doubting women of [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]], the prototypical maenads or "mad women", left their homes to live in the wilds of the nearby mountain [[Cithaeron]]. When they discovered [[Pentheus]] spying on them, dressed as a maenad, they tore him limb from limb.<ref>[[Euripides]], ''The Bacchae''</ref>

This also occurs with the three daughters of [[Minyas (mythology)|Minyas]], who reject Dionysus and remain true to their household duties, becoming startled by invisible drums, flutes, cymbals, and seeing ivy hanging down from their looms. As punishment for their resistance, they become madwomen, choosing the child of one of their number by lot and tearing it to pieces, as the women on the mountain did to young animals. A similar story with a tragic end is told of the daughters of [[Proetus (son of Abas)|Proetus]].