Fragment of a marble relief with dancing maenads 1st-2nd century A.D. Adaptation of work attributed to Kallimachos Adaptation of a Greek relief of about 425-400 B.C. attributed to KallimachosIn myth and art the wine god, Dionysos, is accompanied by dancing women known as maenads. The most famous description of them comes from The Bacchae, a play by Euripides produced in Athens in the late fifth century B.C. The most famous representations are from a relief of dancing maenads carved at the same time. This small relief is a reduced copy dating from the Roman period.. Fragment of a marble relief with dancing maenads. Roman. 1st-2nd century A.D.. Marble, Pentelic. Imperial. Stone Sculpture