Agave
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Kadmean Bacchae · fair-cheeked Agave · his mother · wretched woman
in the texts
Bacchae
Mother of Pentheus and daughter of Kadmos, one of the Theban women driven to Bacchic frenzy on Mount Kithairon.
I saw three companies of dancing women, one of which Autonoe led, the second your mother Agave, and the third Ino.
But now I will go to fit on Pentheus the dress he will wear to the house of Hades, slaughtered by his mother’s hands.
Agave happened to be leaping near me, and I sprang forth, wanting to snatch her, abandoning the ambush where I had hidden myself.
Theogony
A daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia.
And Harmonia, the daughter of golden Aphrodite, bore to Cadmus Ino and Semele and fair-cheeked Agave and Autonoe whom long haired Aristaeus wedded, and Polydorus also in rich-crowned Thebes.