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1. Pentheus was the son of Echion and Agave, the daughter of Cadmus, the founder of the Royal House of Thebes. (Web site)
2. Pentheus, the authoritarian newly appointed king of Thebes is immediately troubled with the rising influence and odd rituals that surround Dionysus.
3. Pentheus, the protagonist, represents human failing to respect the gods so that he, along with the rest of society, is guilty of hubris. (Web site)
4. Pentheus is a good looking boy, has a nice body and belly button. (Web site)
5. Pentheus, the mortal cousin of Dionysus, didn't believe the divine paternity of Dionysus, imprisoned the god and suffered as a consequence. (Web site)

Bacchanalia

1. It was his wish to introduce Bacchanalia into Thebes, where Pentheus reigned as king.

Leading

1. Pentheus begins to see double, perceiving two Thebes and two bulls (Dionysus often took the form of a bull) leading him. (Web site)

Chains

1. Because of this, Pentheus imprisoned Dionysus, but his chains fell off and the jail doors opened for him. (Web site)

Warning

1. Amoung his prophecies were: A warning to Pentheus to recongnize and honor Dionysus when he first appeared in Thebes. (Web site)

Anger

1. The noise roused the anger of Pentheus as the sound of a trumpet does the fire of a war-horse. (Web site)

Spy

1. Dionysus then lured Pentheus out to spy on the bacchic rites.

Women

1. When the women spied Pentheus, they tore him to pieces like they did earlier in the play to a herd of cattle.

Divinity

1. When Dionysus came to Thebes, Pentheus denied his divinity and tried to prevent his ecstatic rites.

Bk Iii

1. Bk III:528-571. He reproves his grandson Pentheus, son of his daughter Agave, for his attempt to lay hands on the god Bacchus. (Web site)

Maenads

1. Alas, following in the footsteps of Pentheus, King Labdacus opposed the cult of Dionysus, and was killed by Dionysus' enraged devotees, the Maenads.
2. The development that has Pentheus go to spy on the maenads, instead of leading a force against them, may also be Euripides' invention. (Web site)

Echion

1. Echion had married Agave, Cadmus' daughter, and became the father of Pentheus.

Limb

1. When the women detected Pentheus, they immediately dragged him down, and joined in tearing him, living as he was, limb from limb. (Web site)

Hills

1. Pentheus persued Dionysus followers up into the hills where they had gone after walking away from his prison. (Web site)

Woods

1. The women tore Pentheus to shreds after he was lured to the woods by Dionysus.

Cousin

1. Briefly, Dionysus returns to Thebes, his putative birthplace, where his cousin Pentheus is king.
2. In the play, Dionysus returns to his birthplace, Thebes, which is ruled by his cousin Pentheus. (Web site)
3. In the play, Dionysus returns to his birthplace, Thebes, ruled by his cousin, Pentheus.

Mother

1. When Pentheus came to spy on their revels, Agave, the mother of Pentheus and Autonoe's sister, spotted him in a tree.
2. The Bacchae is based on the tragedy of Pentheus and his mother, Agave. (Web site)
3. This was the mother of Pentheus in Greek myth.

Son

1. Bk III:692-733. A Maenad, she destroys her son Pentheus, not recognising him in the madness of the sacred mysteries. (Web site)
2. Driven mad by Dionysus, she saw her son Pentheus as a lion and killed him with her own hands.
3. Now Pentheus the son of Echion was also powerful by reason of his noble birth and friendship with the king.

Hubris

1. An example of a protagonist that illustrates the mistake and hubris is Pentheus, from Euripides The Bacchae. (Web site)

King

1. Or they might destroy a mortal who displeased them, as Dionysus destroyed King Pentheus of Thebes for mocking his rites. (Web site)
2. Accompanied by Maenads he visited Thebes, which was ruled by King Pentheus, his own cousin.
3. When Laius became king, he married Iocasta, daughter of Menoeceus, son of Pentheus.

Lycurgus

1. He is confronted by a king, Lycurgus or Pentheus, who opposes him, and whom he punishes terribly in return.

Worship

1. He tried to establish his worship in his home city of Thebes and his followers, the Maenads, killed his cousin, Pentheus, ruler of Thebes. (Web site)
2. Bk III:528-571. His worship comes to Thebes and is opposed there by Pentheus and at Argos by Acrisius. (Web site)

God

1. The women of Thebes, led by Agave, were driven mad by the offended god and tore Pentheus to pieces.
2. Pentheus imprisons Dionysus, but the god destroys the palace and escapes.
3. However, being a god, he is quickly able to break free and creates more havoc, razing the palace of Pentheus to the ground in a giant earthquake and fire. (Web site)

Bacchus

1. Bk III:572-596. A Tyrrhenian from Maeonia, a ship�s captain and priest of Bacchus, captured by Pentheus. (Web site)

Harmonia

1. Cadmus finally abdicated in favor of his grandson Pentheus, and retired with Harmonia to Illyria, whose inhabitants proclaimed him their king.

Rites

1. Agave, his mother, became a devotee of Dionysus, but Pentheus opposed him and his rites.
2. As he approached his native city Thebes, Pentheus the king, who had no respect for the new worship, forbade its rites to be performed. (Web site)
3. Dionysus, in disguise, encouraged Pentheus to dress up as a maenad and infiltrate the rites of Dionysus' followers. (Web site)

Euripides

1. Pentheus Euripides wrote a tale concerning the destructive nature of Dionysus in his play entitled The Bacchae.
2. Unlike those stories of classical mythology which are at least mentioned in the writings of Homer, the story of Pentheus originates with Euripides. (Web site)
3. She appears as wife of Echion and mother of Pentheus in Aeschylus' fragmentary Pentheus, as well as in the Bacchae of Euripides. (Web site)

Cadmus

1. Cadmus was the grandfather of Dionysus and Pentheus.
2. A daughter of Cadmus, who married Echion and was the mother of Pentheus. (Web site)
3. The third book focuses on the mythology of Thebes with the stories of Cadmus, Actaeon, and Pentheus. (Web site)

Agave

1. Agave was a daughter of Cadmus, and mother of Pentheus, king of the Boeotian Thebes. (Web site)
2. But Pentheus, whom Agave bore to Echion, had succeeded Cadmus in the kingdom, and he attempted to put a stop to these proceedings.
3. Bacchus, Pentheus' cousin, himself lured Pentheus to the woods, where the Maenads tore him apart and his corpse was mutilated by his own mother, Agave.

Thebes

1. But after the death of Polydorus 2 (son of Cadmus and successor of Pentheus 1), they usurped power in Thebes, keeping it until the arrival of Amphion 1.
2. The king of Thebes, Cadmus, abdicated in favor of his grandson, Pentheus, due to his old age. (Web site)
3. Pentheus (pen'thē u s) [ key ], in Greek mythology, king of Thebes, son of Cadmus' daughter Agave. (Web site)

Dionysus

1. When the cult of Dionysus came to Thebes, Pentheus resisted the worship of the god in his kingdom. (Web site)
2. Pentheus banned the worship of Dionysus, the son of his aunt Semele, and did not allow the women of Cadmeia to join in his rites.
3. Dionysus, Pentheus' cousin, himself lured Pentheus to the woods, where the Maenads tore him apart and his corpse was mutilated by his own mother, Agave.

Pentheus

1. In the Bacchae of Euripides, Pentheus, King of Thebes, forbade the women to perform the rites of Bacchus and even cast the god himself into prison. (Web site)
2. Agave ("illustrious") was the queen of Thebes in Greek mythology, mother of Pentheus and daughter of Harmonia and Cadmus. (Web site)
3. Echion later married Agave, the daughter of Cadmus, and Pentheus their son succeeded Cadmus as king.

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