After reading further through Euripides Bacchae, I was extremely fascinated by the Maenads. Maenads are women which dance in the woods, drink wine, breast feed baby animals, and dismember those who cross their path. Bacchae turned his aunts into these creatures, which could be seen as crazed or deranged.
I found this interesting in relation to the modern social norms of alcohol, which has the ability to turn people into something they are not without it in their system. There is typically a connection between intoxication and dancing; where there is dancing, there is alcohol available for consumption, and vice versa.
From this I created an critical question: Was this a foreshadow/tradition to modern social norms?
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