Bacchus, the equivalent of Dionysus, is perhaps best known for his position as the god of wine. Bacchants, commonly called Maenads, were the followers of Bacchus and are well known for their crazed and improper worship of the god. In the famous play of Euripides The Bacchae, the god infactuates the women of the city and causes them to behave immorally with men and they even consipre to murder under the god’s influence. This crazed bahaviour was likely linked to Dionysus’s position as the god of wine and ‘good times’.
