Bacchante

One of the occasional readers of my Rambles blog has her own blog on which she describes herself in her header as a bacchante.

I had to look the word up.  It seems a bacchante is either

1.   (in Myth & Legend) a priestess or female votary of Bacchus or 

2. a drunken female reveller.

What a useful word.  The above is Alma-Tadema's idea of a Bacchante.  I can assure you they don't look like this in Liverpool on a Saturday night.