“Take up, with care, the deadly thyrsus spear

and free the dance! The whole land will dance,

when Bromius leads you to the mountains

to join the waiting women—

driven from their shuttles and looms,

freed from themselves, possessed by Dionysus!”

—Euripides, ‘Bacchae’

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