True Blood
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True Blood is an American fantasy horror drama television series produced and created by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of novels by Charlaine Harris.
Some of the cast of True Blood at the 2011 Comic-Con.
The makers of the title sequence wanted to explore themes of redemption and forgiveness.
Promotional poster for second season
The fountain in Bucharest's University Square being colored in red for the premiere of 4th season
Maenad
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In Greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the thiasus, the god's retinue.
Their name, which comes from μαίνομαι, literally translates as 'raving ones'. Maenads were known as Bassarids, Bacchae, or Bacchantes in Roman mythology after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a bassaris or fox skin.
Maenad carrying a thyrsus and a leopard with a snake rolled up over her head. Tondo of an ancient Greek Attic white-ground kylix 490–480 BC from Vulci. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany.
Dancing Maenad Roman copy of Greek original attributed to Kallimachos c. 425–400 BCE at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dancing maenad. Detail from an ancient Greek Paestum red figure skyphos, made by Python, c. 330–320 BC, British Museum, London.
Two satyrs and a maenad. Side A from an ancient Greek red figure calyx-krater from Apulia, 380–370 BC. Louvre, Paris.