Metamorphoses

Pentheus and Bacchus

Charactersketch of pentheus

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Pentheus is a king of Thebes and son of Echion. Pentheus was a skeptical man who doubted Tiresias' prophecies, so when the blind man foretold that Pentheus would disrespect the power of Bacchus as a god and be ripped apart by the hands of his own mother and sisters for his faithlessness, Pentheus didn't believe him.

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