The Klodones and the Mimallones are also mentioned by Plutarch in his biography of Alexander the Great, one of his Parallel Lives. The aetiological myth in Polyaenus may have originated or been adapted in the Aitia ('Causes") of Callimachus, but Polyaenus mentions both important points: Dionysus's ambivalent sexuality and the masculine qualities of the Maenads. This female-male-female transvestite ritual (it was only natural that Dionysus presided over it)Not uncommon in other parts of Greece: Sparta, Argos, Tegea etc. of the Klodones-Mimallones probably marked the transition of the Macedonian girls to adulthood.
