Dancing Maenad, 1st-3rd C. CE copy of 5th C. BCE original

"The air became quiet and the woody glen kept its leaves silent, nor would you have heard the sounds of animals. The women, not having heard the sound clearly, stood upright and looked all around. He repeated his order, and when the daughters of Kadmos recognized the clear command of Bacchus, they—mother Agaue, her sisters, and all other Bacchae—began to move rapidly, no slower than doves, running eagerly with their feet. They leapt through the torrent-streaming valley and mountain cliffs, frantic with the inspiration of the God."

-Euripides, Bacchae

Dancing Maenad. Marble relief (fragment). Сopy of the 1st—3rd cent. CE after a Greek original of the 5th cent. BCE. Current location: Istanbul, Archaeological Museum.

Source:

http://ancientrome.ru/art/artworken/img.htm?id=3836

 

Quote:

https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/5303