Abstract
This chapter explores Emilia’s mythic dimension by drawing attention to Lloyd Malcolm’s use of the ancient Greek maenad as a model of subversion. As Bullen explains, these mythical figures are also called bacchae. They are ‘women who ecstatically worship the god Dionysus’, appearing ‘in a range of stories, often in ways that betray the Greek root of their name: ‘mad women’.
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