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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9423910, member: 5833&quot;]Bacchanalian scenes.&nbsp; Female figures are called bacchantes (or maenads in Greek).&nbsp; Because depictions differ, I&#039;m not sure whether the artist had any of the male figures in mind to be Bacchus (Dionysus) himself.&nbsp; The young man would be considered a faun, one of the conventional members of the &#039;revel rout&#039;. I suspect the [MOS got in here] mature, skin-girt guy is meant for the god himself, although to me he looks more like another companion, Silenus, who is often shown tipsily plodding along on the donkey, not leading it, as he does on the plate.&nbsp; This is a typical representation of this gang:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://d3h6k4kfl8m9p0.cloudfront.net/stories/wkJjiTGhOH22bfaJkJpX6g-smallh.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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