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	Pentheus 1, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Pentheus 1 is the king of Thebes who denied the divinity of Dionysus 2, and was torn limb from limb by the MAENADS.
		Pentheus 1's mother was Agave 2, one of the daughters of Cadmus and Harmonia 1.
		On account of his noble birth, Pentheus 1 was a powerful king, but also because of this he was an arrogant man of insolent and impious character, and letting himself be led by such unfortunate features, he came to be punished by the the god of the vine Dionysus 2.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Pentheus1.html (2364 words)

	I Think » Blog Archive » King Pentheus & Extreme Communitas
		Briefly: King Pentheus is the “uptight” mortal grandson of Cadmus.
		Pentheus has strictly outlawed the threatening worship of Dionusus in Thebes to maintain his measure of control.
		Maenads and their worship of ancient Dionysus, then the opposite extreme would be Pentheus’ forbidding and absolute repression of these elemental forces that engender the ritual phenomenon (that can quite easily be identified as an extreme form) of communitas.
	www.matei.org /ithink/2006/09/18/king-pentheus-extreme-communitas (1563 words)

	EURIPIDES_bacchae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Pentheus shows up straight away from abroad to deal with rumors of women leaving their homes--in ecstasy--gadding to the mountains to dance in honor of the new god Dionysus.
		Pentheus interrogates the god--Dionysus' responses are witty and appear evasive to Pentheus, an acrobat with words.
		Pentheus does not know or see that the priest is indeed Dionysus himself, even though Dionysus basically tells him that he is the god.
	www.wsu.edu /~hughesc/euripides_bacchae.htm (1610 words)

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		Pentheus is a King of Thebes who refuses to acknowledge the divine will of Dionysus or his rituals.
		Like Pentheus, Eminem may also be seen as a rebellious and beardless icon with disdain for the majority, while dressing himself in garments of the outcasts.
		Pentheus is killed by his mother Agave and her sisters Auntonoe and Ino, after he disturbs their Bacchic rites.
	bama.ua.edu /~guidr004 (607 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: The Bacchae Study Guide
		Pentheus is outraged by the triumph of these women; he says again and again that the men cannot accept rebellion from females.
		The god demands that Pentheus dress himself as a woman, and Pentheus, perversely obsessed with the idea of seeing his mother and the other women revel in the mountains, complies.
		Pentheus, the young man who has insisted again and again that the old hierarchies of gender be preserved, is made to cross-dress.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/bacchae/section6.html (1248 words)

	BACCHAE
		Pentheus, child of Ekhion, to whom I have given control [kratos] of this land, is coming here to the house now in all haste.
		When Pentheus saw this, 625 he ran here and there, thinking that the house was burning, and ordered the slaves to bring water; every servant was at work, toiling in vain.
		Pentheus falls crashing to the ground from his lofty seat, wailing greatly; for he knew he was near doom.
	www.uh.edu /~cldue/texts/bacchae.html (9835 words)

	Can Dionysus be Considered Evil in the Bacchae -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		However, Pentheus himself uses “tuch” in relation to what he intends to do to Dionysus should he be caught: the subtle undertone of this Irony is present throughout the play.
		When she asks to see Pentheus, to show him what she has caught because he will be proud of the honour she will have brought to her family: there is just something about that scene which is innately disturbing and essentially evil.
		Pentheus achieved true sight and belief right at the end, as the fogginess fades from his mind and he realises what is happening, but this is not enough for Dionysus.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/692 (1608 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Bacchantes by Euripides
		Pentheus is coming hither to the house in haste, Echion's son, to whom I resign the government.
		His it is to rouse the revellers to dance, to laugh away dull care, and wake the flute, whene'er at banquets of the gods the luscious grape appears, or when the winecup in the feast sheds sleep on men who wear the ivy-spray.
		Pentheus, thou that art so cager to see what is forbidden, and to show thy zeal in an unworthy cause, come forth before the palace, let me see thee clad as a woman in frenzied Bacchante's dress, to spy upon thy own mother and her company.
	classics.mit.edu /Euripides/bacchan.html (7898 words)

	SparkNotes: The Bacchae: Scene II & Interlude II
		The servant also tells Pentheus that his other prisoners, the Theban women who were driven mad by Dionysus, had all mysteriously escaped to the mountains to continue their singing and dancing.
		Pentheus ends their first encounter by promising to cut off Dionysus' hair, destroy his possessions, and lock him up for good.
		In contrast the second section describes Pentheus's lowly ancestry; the house of Cadmus was said to have descended from a dragon's tooth planted in the earth.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/bacchae/section3.rhtml (1253 words)

	"Diversions" by Michael Finley
		Dionysus, licking his chops at the rationalist king's hubris, invites Pentheus to come spy on the Bacchanalian rites and reveal their "mysteries," so that the thinking world can take appropriate measures.
		Pentheus was as symbol for his modern generation, as the Pentium is for ours.
		Myths are often technophobic -- the tower of Babel, the Midas touch, the riddle of the Sphinx all mocked the vanity of human certitude.
	mfinley.com /articles/pentheus.htm (988 words)

	Euripides' Bacchae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Pentheus (grandson of Cadmus and the king) is outraged at these bacchic goings-on.
		Pentheus will not be humiliated: he orders the army to be summoned, in heavy armor.
		Pentheus, though he hesitates, cannot resist, and agrees to put on woman's dress and a wig of curls.
	classics.uc.edu /~johnson/tragedy/summaries/bacchae.html (410 words)

	AllRefer.com - Pentheus (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
		When Dionysus came to Thebes, Pentheus denied his divinity and tried to prevent his ecstatic rites.
		The women of Thebes, led by Agave, were driven mad by the offended god and tore Pentheus to pieces.
		The story is the subject of Euripides' Bacchae.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Pentheus.html (170 words)

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		The officers inform Pentheus that although his female followers have all escaped their bonds and are in the mountains, they did manage to catch Dionysus who was surprisingly docile and passive towards his captives.
		Pentheus begins his inquisition, asking him questions about his birth, his parents, birthplace and all the places he has been.
		Their play-acting is disturbed when the Officers comes informs them that Pentheus is dead, torn to death by the hands of his mother, Agave, and the Bacchanates believing they were killing a mountain lion.
	www.loyno.edu /~jageorge/synopsis.html (992 words)

	bacchae
		PENTHEUS represents the order of the city; he returns to set to rights "strange mischief" he has heard about; the problem is, in HIS view, "OBSCENE DISORDER." Pentheus proposes to impose the order of the polis (see above) by forcibly restraining the woman and having the stranger's head cut off (note tragic irony here).
		Pentheus and Dionysos face off: Dionysos is cool, calculating, cruel; Pentheus is aggressive, asserting his masculinity and authority, show of military force (utterly incomprehending of the nature of the force he opposes; Dionysos says as much).
		A messenger reports the ghastly fate of Pentheus: he is torn to pieces by the women; Agave, his mother, enters with his head cradled in her arms (believing she bears a lion's head).
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classic/wilson/core/bacchae.htm (497 words)

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		PENTHEUS What urgent news dost bring me? MESSENGER I have seen, O king, those frantic Bacchanals, who darted in frenzy from this land with bare white feet, and I am come to tell thee and the city the wondrous deeds they do, deeds passing strange.
		PENTHEUS Say on, for thou shalt go unpunished by me in all respects; for to be angered with the upright is wrong.
		PENTHEUS Of a truth I seem to see two suns, and two towns of Thebes, our seven-gated city; and thou, methinks, art a bull going before to guide me, and on thy head a pair of horns have grown.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/euripides-bacchant.txt (8847 words)

	Introduction to Euripides Bacchae Background After Euripides
		Pentheus orders his men to destroy the rock seat where the ceremonies are held, and to find the effeminate-looking stranger who is leading them.
		Pentheus decision to dress as a woman is intended to be taken as an indication of his moral debasement.
		Pentheus wanted a better view, so Dionysus bent a tall pine tree over, and it carried the king to where he could see, and be seen.
	www.columbia.edu /~kdc2101/ebz5/lithum/asemester/Bacchae.html (3245 words)

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		Pentheus strangles a part of himself because of his hierarchy of values.
		Pentheus' comment that Dionysus' body "will soon be looking for his head" is an example of dramatic irony because Pentheus does not realize that his own body is looking for its head.
		Pentheus presents himself as being representative of the "civilized" aspects of life.
	faculty.uca.edu /~bonniem/BACCgroup.htm (916 words)

	Euripides' "The Bacchae"
		Pentheus sends his men to look for the mysterious stranger and when they return successful they report "We captured the quarry you sent us to catch." (p.
		Ever the disbeliever, even Pentheus himself is consistently identified with the animals as "son of Echion, born of the breed of Earth, spawned by the dragon," (p.
		As Pentheus is killed the chorus of women celebrate the final hunt which has occurred, singing "Bacchus the hunter lashed the Maenads against his prey." (p.
	www.visopsys.org /andy/essays/bacchae96.html (1137 words)

	Euripides, The Bacchae
		PENTHEUS his first-cousin, present King of Thebes, son of Echion and Agave; another first-cousin was apparently Labdacus, the grandfather of Oedipus; his (putative) grandchildren were Creon and Jocasta.
		Chorus invokes the `Swift hounds of Frenzy' to bring vengeance on Pentheus; recollection of Pentheus' impiety and warning against failing to honor the gods.
		Pentheus' temporal authority is progressively revealed as impotence in relation to the unfolding power of the god; and since king and god are in direct conflict it follows that the victim will become the aggressor, the hunted the hunter, and vice versa."
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/e-bacch.html (553 words)

	Divine Madness
		Part of the uncertainty is visible in the sympathetic characterization of Pentheus, the persecutor of Dionysos, in The Bacchae of Euripides.
		The agony of Pentheus, replicating the agony of the god that he persecuted, is a sad song.
		The backdrop to the central figures of Pentheus and Dionysos is the chorus of The Bacchae, female devotees of the god.
	www.amrep.org /past/bacchae/bacchae1.html (1414 words)

	An Intoductory Note to Euripides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		So Pentheus' rejection of Dionysus is a rejection of him as a close family member (part of himself), as well as a rejection of his divinity.
		The traditional source of political leadership and justice (the king, Pentheus) is radically uncertain of his identity, wracked with inner complexities which control his actions, and thus without any confident self-assertiveness or sense of responsibility for the sake of the community.
		Pentheus is concerned only with power in the shoring up of his own inadequate personality; Dionysus is concerned only with ecstatic release in a mass frenzy and the total destruction of those who do not immediately comply--all in order to convert civic life into an irrational manifestation of belief in what he represents.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/euripides/Bacchae_Introduction.htm (3647 words)

	Euripides' The Bacchae: Animal Imagery and the Metaphor of the Hunt
		Pentheus sends his men to look for the mysterious stranger, and when they return successfully they report "We captured the quarry you sent us to catch." (§435).
		Ever the disbeliever, Pentheus himself is consistently identified with the animals as "son of Echion, born of the breed of Earth, spawned by the dragon" (§540-542).
		As Pentheus is killed the chorus of women celebrate the final hunt which has occurred, singing "Bacchus the hunter lashed the Maenads against his prey" (§1190), and after the Maenads return home from the mountain, twice Agave exclaims "Happy was the hunting" (§1171,1181).
	www.visopsys.org /andy/essays/bacchae.html (1362 words)

	The Bacchae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Pentheus questions him and cuts off his hair, despite Dionysus stating, "My hair is holy.
		Yet, somehow Dionysus persuades Pentheus to spy on the Maenads -- a forbidden sight -- by adopting a female disguise: "If they knew you were a man, they would kill you instantly" (913).
		Pentheus plunged downwards and, despite his pleading, the Maenads, especially his aunts, tore him limb from limb; others played ball with scraps of his flesh (922).
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/bacchae.html (555 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the Greek tragedy by Euripides, The Bacchae, Pentheus, the King of Thebes, is faced with destruction and disorder.
		Pentheus may be curious about the Bacchae but he is angered by their disobedience more.
		Pentheus would retain order for his city and for himself by not going with the enemy's leader up the mountain to see the chaos before trying to stop it.
	personal.centenary.edu /~kgrimes/essay1.html (702 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: The Bacchae Study Guide - Short Summary
		Pentheus, though probably still a teenager (his exact age is never given), rules as king.
		He has heard that there is a priest who is at the center of the new religion, and Pentheus intends to have the man captured and possibly executed: the audience knows that this priest is Dionysus himself, disguised as a mortal.
		Pentheus interrogates Dionysus, who Pentheus thinks is a mortal man; Dionysus' answers are slippery and meant to madden the king.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/bacchae/shortsumm.html (873 words)

	The Royal House of the Labdacids - Agave and Pentheus
		Pentheus succeeds the Theban throne after his uncle Polydorus, the son of his grandfather Cadmus.
		Pentheus does not approve of Dionysus’; cult, followers or rituals and tries to stop the introduction.
		Dionysus invites Pentheus and his mother Agave to witness the Bacchic Delirium, (Bacchus is another name for Dionysus), with which the Theban women suffer.
	library.thinkquest.org /26264/myths/tales/royal/labdacids/site000.htm (155 words)

	Euripides' Bacchae
		Pentheus (610-641), there is no shift of scene, but the god himself narrates this interior action to the Chorus.
		He deludes Pentheus by making the king, 1) see him as a bull, 2) think that the palace was in flames, and 3) think that a phantom Dionysus he was trying to stab was the god himself (616-632).
		In the fifth episode (1022-1152), both Pentheus and Agave suffer horrible discoveries and sudden peripeties.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/netshots/bacchae.htm (2216 words)

	Euripedes Bacchantes
		He is sacrificed in the guise of a lion, to the rites of Dionysus in the stead of the dying and resurrected God.
		When Pentheus binds Dionysus the god warns him requesting he does not do as reason addressing madness, and noting he has no knowledge of the life he is leading and that his very existence has now become a mystery to him.
		Agave herself tears Pentheus limb from limb and carries back the pieces to her husband still in a delirium thinking him to be an animal trophy for dedication.
	www.dhushara.com /book/diochris/bacch.htm (2077 words)

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