PENTHEUS  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, successor of See also:

• CADMUS

Cadmus as See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• THEBES (anciently &Oat, Thebae, or in poetry sometimes Oif3a, in modern Greek Phiva, or, according to the corrected pronunciation, Thivae)
• THEBES (e 3a1)
• THEBES, ROMANCE OF

Thebes . When See also:

• DIONYSUS (probably = " son of Zeus," from & Os and vv(7os, a Thracian word for " son ")

Dionysus, with his See also:

• BAND

band of frenzied See also:

• WOMEN

women (See also:

• MAENADS (Gr. MatvaSes, frenzied women)

Maenads) arrived at Thebes (his native See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place and the first See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city visited by him in See also:

• GREECE

Greece), Pentheus denied his divinity and violently opposed the introduction of his See also:

• RITES

rites . His See also:

• MOTHER

mother See also:

• AGAVE

Agave having joined the revellers on See also:

• MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount See also:

• CITHAERON

Cithaeron, Pentheus followed and climbed a lofty See also:

• PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine to See also:

• WATCH (in O. Eng. wcecce, a keeping guard or watching, from wacian, to guard, watch, wacan, to wake)

watch the proceedings . Being discovered he was torn to pieces by Agave and others, who mistook him for some See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild beast . His See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head was carried back to Thebes in See also:

• TRIUMPH (triumphus)

triumph by his mother . Labdacus and See also:

• LYCURGUS
• LYCURGUS (c. 396–325 B.C.)
• LYCURGUS (Gr. AvKofpyor)

Lycurgus, who offered a similar resistance, met with a like fearful end . Some identify Pentheus with Dionysus himself in his See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character as the See also:

• GOD

god of the See also:

• VINE

vine, torn to pieces by the violence of See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter . The See also:

• FATE

fate of Pentheus was the subject of lost tragedies by See also:

• THESPIS (6th cent. B.C.)

Thespis and See also:

• PACUVIUS, MARCUS (c. 220-130 B.C.)

Pacuvius . See See also:

• EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides, Bacchae, passim; See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, Metam. iii . 511; See also:

• THEOCRITUS

Theocritus See also:

• XXVI

xxvi; See also:

• APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus iii . 5, 2; See also:

• NONNUS (Egyptian for " saint ")

Nonnus, Dionysiaca, xliv–xlvi; on representations in See also:

• ART

art see O . See also:

• JAHN, FRIEDRICH LUDWIG (1778-1852)
• JAHN, JOHANN (1750—1816)
• JAHN, OTTO (1813—1869)

Jahn, Pentheus and See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Mainaden (1841) .