ABSTRACT
The depiction of pots with named maenads—that is, characters with maenadic attributes and labels—is a Classical phenomenon that runs parallel to the depiction of personifications in Athenian art. This chapter suggests that the evolutionary history of visual personifications in Classical Athens. The scene on the calyx krater in Moscow is almost identical except that the one labelled maenad on that vase is Methyse (Drunkenness). Methyse emphasizes a light-hearted, but no less important aspect of Dionysos, the inebriation produced by wine, of which Dionysos was patron. Local personifications may also be represented as maenads. Three Greek islands, Delos, Euboia and Lemnos, appear on the Eretria Painter's cup in Warsaw as maenads engaged in a dance with their mother, Tethys, as well as some maenad with musical names and satyrs.
